[PATCH v6 09/15] arm64/sve: Switch sve_pffr() argument from task to thread

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed May 9 01:44:20 PDT 2018


On 08/05/18 17:44, Dave Martin wrote:
> sve_pffr(), which is used to derive the base address used for
> low-level SVE save/restore routines, currently takes the relevant
> task_struct as an argument.
> 
> The only accessed fields are actually part of thread_struct, so
> this patch changes the argument type accordingly.  This is done in
> preparation for moving this function to a header, where we do not
> want to have to include <linux/sched.h> due to the consequent
> circular #include problems.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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