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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:50:17 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_task() and thread_saved_pc() fix for x86
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:18:46PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Alternative variant: just let schedule() store its return address
> in the task_struct.

Please please.  I can't reliably unwind the stack on Alpha.

> OTOH, the value is used only by Alt-SysRq-T, so... Hell knows.

No, it's also used by 'ps -l'.  See wchan.


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