Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PF_flags cleaups

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> fs/proc/array.c:do_task_stat()

Ok, I doubt anybody cares. I think that thing is entirely historical,
and we probably should never have done it in the first place. I wonder
if we should just replace that field with a zero.

We've moved flag bits around in task->flags (and moved them to
thread->flags) before, so that /proc/<pid>/stat field has not been
stable historically either. I can't imagine what could break - it
would have broken many times before too.

                      Linus
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