From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422693AbWBASSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:18:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932453AbWBASSy (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:18:54 -0500 Received: from fmr22.intel.com ([143.183.121.14]:16563 "EHLO scsfmr002.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbWBASSx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:18:53 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: [patch 41/44] make thread_info.flags an unsigned long Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:17:43 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [patch 41/44] make thread_info.flags an unsigned long Thread-Index: AcYnDq5nlgSUChzQS/qIxsRaC5J0oQATMRmw From: "Luck, Tony" To: "Akinobu Mita" , Cc: "Richard Henderson" , "Ivan Kokshaysky" , , , "Andi Kleen" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2006 18:17:45.0225 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC733F90:01C6275B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- 2.6-git.orig/include/asm-ia64/thread_info.h +++ 2.6-git/include/asm-ia64/thread_info.h @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct thread_info { struct task_struct *task; /* XXX not really needed, except for dup_task_struct() */ struct exec_domain *exec_domain;/* execution domain */ - __u32 flags; /* thread_info flags (see TIF_*) */ + unsigned long flags; /* thread_info flags (see TIF_*) */ __u32 cpu; /* current CPU */ mm_segment_t addr_limit; /* user-level address space limit */ int preempt_count; /* 0=premptable, <0=BUG; will also serve as bh-counter */ This leaves a useless hole in the structure. Tell me again why this is a good thing? -Tony