[Fwd: Re: hello_d on pluto1]

[David Xu]

>Hmm, well we were talking about rearranging the kse_mailbox,
>remember?  We can make km_version a long instead of an int
>and that would align km_curthread.  It would only break
>binary compat on 64-bit platforms also.
>
>I think other things in kse_mailbox may need to be fixed
>also.  km_func is not aligned either since km_flags is
>only 32 bits.  I think the mailbox should be something
>like this:
>
>struct kse_mailbox {
>	uint32_t		km_version;
>	uint32_t		km_flags;
>	uint32_t		km_quantum;
>	uint32_t		__spare1__[1];	/* align km_sigscaught to 16 bytes */
>	struct kse_thr_mailbox	*km_curthread;
>	struct kse_thr_mailbox	*km_completed;
>	void			*km_udata;
>	kse_func_t		*km_func;
>	sigset_t		km_sigscaught;
>	stack_t			km_stack;
>	struct timespec		km_timeofday;
>	uint32_t		__spare2__[8];
>};
>
> Probably something similar for kse_thr_mailbox.
>

Do you have its layout already ? I might change them after 5.2 release.
Marcel, do you think Dan's kse_mailbox layout is ok for you ?

>-- 
>Dan Eischen

David Xu