Re: [PATCH 0/3] nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 31 2016 - 09:18:50 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:54:19AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Sounds good to me! I also volunteer the x86 architecture to be the guinea pig to
> > convert thread_info::flags to atomic_t ;-) [*]
>
> So I'm not sure we can do this one arch at a time; all the TIF
> manipulators live in include/linux/thread_info.h and are shared across
> all archs.

So my thinking was that we'd #ifdef the variants.

Thanks,

Ingo