Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:55:37 -0600 | From | Tom Gall <> | Subject | Re: The CURRENT macro |
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Michael Zhu wrote: > > In Alessandro Rubini's book Linux Device Driver(Second > Edition), Chatper 12, he said that "By accessing the > fields in the request structure, usually by way of > CURRENT" and "CURRENT is just a pointer into > blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue". I know CURRENT is > just a macro. Where can I find the definition of this > macro? > I just don't know how to get the struct request from > the request_queue(a request_queue_t struct). CURRENT > points to which field in the > blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue? Thank you very much.
Look in include/asm-[your-arch]/current.h
It's architecture dependant. For instance on PPC64 we keep current in a register.
Regards,
Tom
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