linux-kernel - Re: Question on ARC's thread

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Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:10:17 +0000
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
CC:	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question on ARC's thread_info

On Sunday 29 March 2015 04:48 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Vineet,
>
> I'm working on a patch series which touches sturct thread_info.
> ARC's thread_info has the following comment:
>  * - if the contents of this structure are changed, the assembly constants
>  *   must also be changed
>
> Is this still true? Unless I'm reading the code wrong that case should be
> handled automatically by the asm-offsets mechanism.
> So no manual fixup of magic constants should be needed.


Yep, I think that is the case too - perhaps the comment is dated when we still had
magic constants in code :-)
If not I need to fix it anyways so feel free to change it.

-Vineet

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