On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:00:08AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Why does __mutex_lock_common() have "task" as a stack variable? That's actually a fairly common thing to do. The reason is that 'current' is far more expensive to evaluate than a local variable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html