Messages in this thread | | | From | (Peter Benie) | Subject | Re: Process Scope Scheduling Support | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:42:04 +0100 |
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cd_smith@ou.edu writes ("Re: Process Scope Scheduling Support"): > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote: > > > I'm still trying to figure out why adding a member to the > > > task_struct keeps the kernel from booting even when I don't > > > even use that member anywhere in the source. > > > > At a guess, the task structure has some alignment requirement that > > your additional member breaks... > > Oh, I didn't know that... what are the alignment requirements? At the > very least, I can document them in include/linux/sched.h and submit a > patch for that.
I've never had a problem adding extra items to task_struct so I doubt that alignment is the issue. A possible source of problems is failing to correctly update INIT_TASK for the new task_struct, but that's usually detected at compile-time.
Peter
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