>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:07:09 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
DaveM> I didn't have to change any of my locore code, what the heck
DaveM> are you talking about? :-) All of the changes to _ANY_
DaveM> assembly on sparc64 looked like this:
The task pointer lives in the thread pointer register (r13), so it's
trivial to address off of it. The stack pointer is a poor replacement
for that. The bit-masking that the x86 code is doing to get the
thread info pointer atrocious and is part of the reason task coloring
is harder to do on x86.
--david
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