On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:52:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Ugh. Looking around at this, it turns out that a great example of this >> kind of legacy issue is the debug_mutex stuff. >> >> It uses "struct thread_info *" as the owner pointer, and there is _no_ >> existing reason for it. In fact, in every single place it actually >> wants the task_struct, and it does task_thread_info(task) just to >> convert it to the thread-info, and then converts it back with >> "ti->task". >> >> So the attached patch seems to be the right thing to do regardless of >> this whole discussion. > > Yeah, that looks fine. Want me to take it or will you just commit? PeterZ, mind if I split it into a couple of patches, test it, and add it to my series? --Andy -- 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
