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Message-ID: <20081203235819.GA17615@tsunami.ccur.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:58:19 -0500
From:	Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Change thread_info's flag field back to 32 bits

Change x86_64's thread_info 'flags' field back to __u32.

This was changed to 'unsigned long' when the thread_info*.h
for i386 and x86_64 were merged.  Change it back.  We can
do this as only 27 bits of 'flags' are actually used.

This change actually packs down thread_info by 64 bits:
32 bits are saved by the smaller flags, and 32 bits are
saved by the following 'mm_segment_t field' becoming
naturally 64-bit aligned.

Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>

Index: 2.6.28-rc7/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6.28-rc7.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h	2008-12-03 17:53:10.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.6.28-rc7/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h	2008-12-03 18:31:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 struct thread_info {
 	struct task_struct	*task;		/* main task structure */
 	struct exec_domain	*exec_domain;	/* execution domain */
-	unsigned long		flags;		/* low level flags */
+	__u32			flags;		/* low level flags */
 	__u32			status;		/* thread synchronous flags */
 	__u32			cpu;		/* current CPU */
 	int			preempt_count;	/* 0 => preemptable,
--
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