Re: [PATCH] sched: make struct task_struct::state 32-bit
From: Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-03 16:23:11
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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.