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thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags
The generic THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK definition of thread_info::flags is a u32, matching x86 prior to the introduction of THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK. However, common helpers like test_ti_thread_flag() implicitly assume that thread_info::flags has at least the size and alignment of unsigned long, and relying on padding and alignment provided by other elements of task_struct is somewhat fragile. Additionally, some architectures use more that 32 bits for thread_info::flags, and others may need to in future. With THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK, task struct follows thread_info with a long field, and thus we no longer save any space as we did back in commit: affa219 ("x86: change thread_info's flag field back to 32 bits") Given all this, it makes more sense for the generic thread_info::flags to be an unsigned long. In fact given <linux/thread_info.h> contains/uses the helpers mentioned above, BE arches *must* use unsigned long (or something of the same size) today, or they wouldn't work. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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