powerpc: Merge thread_info.h

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Oct 21 17:53:46 EST 2005


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:45:50PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> 	- In readiness for 64k pages, when THREAD_SIZE will be less
> than a page, ppc64 used kmalloc() rather than get_free_pages() to
> allocate the kernel stack.  With this patch we do the same for ppc32,
> since there's no strong reason not to.

This adds quite a bit of overhead and wasted memory.  Please don't do it
for ppc32 or ppc64 with THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE either.




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