linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 7/7] powerpc/64: Modify CURRENT_THREAD

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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:01:43 +0200
From:   Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 7/7] powerpc/64: Modify CURRENT_THREAD_INFO()



Le 03/10/2018 à 07:44, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
> On Mon,  1 Oct 2018 12:30:31 +0000 (UTC)
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:
> 
>> CURRENT_THREAD_INFO() now uses the PACA to retrieve 'current' pointer,
>> it doesn't use 'sp' anymore.
> 
> Can you remove this too now? I think it will be clearer what's going on
> and easier to read once everyone remembers current is the same offset as
> current thread_info.

Ok I will.

Christophe

> 
> Overall nice series, thanks for doing this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
>