On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:56:09 +0530 Gautham R Shenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I mean, we already have four of them (PF_NOFREEZE, PF_FROZEN, > > PF_FREEZER_SKIP, TIF_FREEZE), and you will need to introduce two more for > > the freezer-based CPU hotplug, so if yet another one is needed, that will > > make > > up almost a separate u8 field ... > > I am perfectly ok with it. But I am not sure if everybody would agree to have > another field in the task struct, though in this case it does make sense :-) OK by me. You might want to consider making that fields's locking protocol be set_bit(), clear_bit(), etc rather than task_lock(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/