linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/14] syslets: core code

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702161647090.14869@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/14] syslets: core code

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> +	spin_lock(&ah->lock);
> +
> +	new_async_thread = pick_ready_cachemiss_thread(ah);
> +	if (!new_async_thread)
> +		goto out_unlock;
> +
> +	async_ready = t->async_ready;
> +	WARN_ON(!async_ready);
> +	t->async_ready = NULL;
> +
> +	new_task = new_async_thread->task;
> +
> +	move_user_context(new_task, t);

Since I lost the email where you were describing the todo list, I'll hook 
into this one.
I haven't seen you mentioning it, but at least TID and signal handling 
need to be swapped to. So it'd be better to have a generic 
move_user_context() that does system independent work, and an 
arch_move_user_context() that takes care of system dependent stuff (that 
is called by move_user_context()).



- Davide


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