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[PATCH] i386: Implement "current" with the PDA

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Use the pcurrent field in the PDA to implement the "current" macro.  This ends
up compiling down to a single instruction to get the current task.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-12-07 02:14:03 +01:00
committed by Andi Kleen
parent b2938f8808
commit ec7fcaabbf
5 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct tas
if (unlikely(prev->fs | next->fs))
loadsegment(fs, next->fs);
write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);
/*
* Restore IOPL if needed.