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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Your patch would be ok IMHO if you additionally changed the arches to
> include task struct inside struct thread_info, getting things back down
> to a single allocation for thread_info+task_struct, with 'current' once
> again being a constant offset from the beginning of thread_info.  [this
> might require resurrecting the old patches to move task struct
> definitions out of sched.h proper]

Actually, you don't really need the definition of task_struct, if
include dependencies get really hairy... you really only need the size
of the task struct.

	Jeff



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