On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Seems like a hack. Why can't that be stored in a per cpu variable? It *is* a percpu variable - the whole x86_tss structure is percpu. I guess it could be a different (separate) percpu variable, but might as well use the space we already have allocated. Linus