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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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