[PATCH] PPC: use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO instead of open coded assembly

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Jul 3 07:27:32 EST 2012


On 02.07.2012, at 23:26, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:59 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> This should go into an #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ block, right? :)
> 
> We almost never use #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__, we use it the other way around,
> to prevent C stuff from being included in assembly. The other way around
> is legit since things might be used in inline asm for example.

I'm not sure I want to see this bit of code used as is in inline asm :). I don't even think it's possible, since it's a full statement. Either way, it's safer with the guard.


Alex



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