Re: 2.4.23 *_task_struct() observations ...

[Russell King]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:26:20PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> just wanted to get an opinion on the following ...
> 
> include/asm-i386/processor.h  defines ...
> 
>   #define alloc_task_struct() ((struct task_struct *) \
> 				__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,1))
>   #define free_task_struct(p)  free_pages((unsigned long) (p), 1)
>   #define get_task_struct(tsk) atomic_inc(&virt_to_page(tsk)->count)
> 
> now there seems to be no put_task_struct(), but
> there are some examples where get/free is used 
> where I would expect a put_* ...

put_* is free_*.  The reference count for the task struct is the page
count (virt_to_page(tsk)->count).

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Russell King
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