Patchset annotates arch/* uses of ->thread_info. Ones that really are about
access of thread_info of given process are simply switched to
task_thread_info(task); ones that deal with access to objects on stack are
switched to new helper - task_stack_page(). A _lot_ of the latter are
actually open-coded instances of "find where pt_regs are"; those are
consolidated into task_pt_regs(task) (many architectures actually have such
helper already).
Note that these annotations are not mandatory - any code not converted to
these helpers still works. However, they clean up a lot of places and have
actually caught a number of bugs, so converting out of tree ports would be a
good idea...
As an example of breakage caught by that stuff, see i386 pt_regs mess - we
used to have it open-coded in a bunch of places and when back in April Stas
had fixed a bug in copy_thread(), the rest had been left out of sync. That
required two followup patches (the latest - just before 2.6.15) _and_ still
had left /proc/*/stat eip field broken. Try ps -eo eip on i386 and watch the
junk...
This patch:
new helper - task_stack_page(task). Returns pointer to the memory object
containing task stack; usually thread_info of task sits in the beginning
of that object.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro