Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 7 authors, 2019-09-24

Re: [PATCH] sched: make struct task_struct::state 32-bit

From: Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-03 16:23:11
Also in: dm-devel, lkml, rcu

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:02:38AM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
struct task_struct {
	struct thread_info         thread_info;          /*     0    24 */
	volatile int               state;                /*    24     4 */

	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

	void *                     stack;                /*    32     8 */

Though seeing as this is also the boundary of the randomized layout we can't
really do much better without changing the boundary itself. So much for
cacheline use :/
Cacheline use of task_struct is pretty hopeless because of all the ifdefs.
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