linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/9] x86/process: Unify copy_thread

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Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:52:44 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] x86/process: Unify copy_thread_tls()

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 08:56:50AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:36 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> > 64bit does not have flags in the inactive_task_frame ...
> >
> 
> Hmm.  One more thing to unify, I guess.

All that takes is porting objtool to 32bit.

See commit: 64604d54d311 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")