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To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch 
In-Reply-To: Message from Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> 
   of "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:25:33 +0100." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151219590.564-100000@serv> 
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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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> 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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