Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch

From: David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 06:37:52 EST


> That wouldn't be a problem, if ia32 added the needed infrastructure to
> calculate the structure offsets. It's not really that difficult, look at
> the m68k implementation, which even gets dependencies right. AFAIK Keith
> also added the needed infra structure to his new build system.

But the offsets aren't fixed. The task structure does not lie adjacent to the
thread_info structure.

David
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