Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] unify init_task

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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Unconverted architectures so far are m68k (because it doesn't use an explicit
> > > init_task.c), ia64 (because it faffs about with init_thread_union), and
> > > sparc{,64} (which appear to rely on some magic.)
> > 
> > m68k just has the same code as anyone else embedded in
> > arch/m68k/kernel/process.c.
> 
> There is an extra aligned(THREAD_SIZE))) attribute in the m68k thread_info
> definition, just like sparc and mips. Are you sure that removing it is
> safe on m68k?

Thanks, I missed that one. I should have launched `diff' instead of my own
eyes...

Wondering, would it harm a lot having the aligned(THREAD_SIZE) everywhere?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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