[PATCH v2 3/7] powerpc: use task_pid_nr() for TID allocation

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Thu Apr 26 19:25:22 AEST 2018


On 25/04/18 07:12, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Yes. Like with PIDR, was trying to assign TIDR initially to all threads.
> But since only a subset of threads need/use TIDR, we can assign the
> value later (when set_thread_tidr() is called). So we should be able to
> use task_pid_nr() then.

OK. Alastair has also confirmed with me that truncating the pid to a u16 
should be safe, so therefore:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>


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