Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info

[H. Peter Anvin]

On June 17, 2016 4:23:19 PM PDT, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 16:10 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>Â
>> Yes.
>> 
>> I did a half-finished patchset to do this once, in that I defined
>> accessor functions which used container_of instead of pointers on
>> architectures where this merge was enabled.
>
>How do you get to "current" in that case ? A normal per-cpu ?
>
>Cheers,
>Ben.

Yes.  We already do that on x86-64 at least.
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