Commit-ID: 907241dccb4ce5d9413cf3c030b32b0cfc184914
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/907241dccb4ce5d9413cf3c030b32b0cfc184914
Author: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:24:07 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:35:06 +0200
thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags
The generic THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK definition of thread_info::flags is a
u32, matching x86 prior to the introduction of THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK.
However, common helpers like test_ti_thread_flag() implicitly assume
that thread_info::flags has at least the size and alignment of unsigned
long, and relying on padding and alignment provided by other elements of
task_struct is somewhat fragile. Additionally, some architectures use
more that 32 bits for thread_info::flags, and others may need to in
future.
With THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK, task struct follows thread_info with a long
field, and thus we no longer save any space as we did back in commit:
affa219b60a11b32 ("x86: change thread_info's flag field back to 32 bits")
Given all this, it makes more sense for the generic thread_info::flags
to be an unsigned long.
In fact given <linux/thread_info.h> contains/uses the helpers mentioned
above, BE arches *must* use unsigned long (or something of the same size)
today, or they wouldn't work.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/thread_info.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index e2d0fd8..45f004e 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ struct compat_timespec;
#ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
struct thread_info {
- u32 flags; /* low level flags */
+ unsigned long flags; /* low level flags */
};
#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \
