linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] include:linux: task

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Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:29 +0300
From:	Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@...il.com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] include:linux: task_struct personality comment

Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d35d2b6..c6b2119 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1274,8 +1274,10 @@ struct task_struct {
 	int exit_code, exit_signal;
 	int pdeath_signal;  /*  The signal sent when the parent dies  */
 	unsigned int jobctl;	/* JOBCTL_*, siglock protected */
-	/* ??? */
+
+	/* used for emulating ABI behavior of previous Linux versions */
 	unsigned int personality;
+
 	unsigned did_exec:1;
 	unsigned in_execve:1;	/* Tell the LSMs that the process is doing an
 				 * execve */
-- 
1.7.9.5

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