Re: [patch] 2.5.20 x86 iobitmap cleanup

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> Below is a patch against base 2.5.20 which makes the io port 
> bitmap in thread_struct a pointer to a bitmap that is only 
> allocated when the process calls ioperm.  This results in 132 
> bytes being removed from struct task_struct.

Why do you introduce a arch_dispose_thread_struct(), instead of just 
making the x86 exit_thread() do it?

		Linus