Re: [PATCH] m68k: Fix task info flags handling for 68000

Hi Daniel,

On 31/3/26 08:09, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 20:25, Greg Ungerer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah, agreed. The more I look at the ColdFire version the more I think it
>> may not be totally correct. Its flow here doesn't match the comments from
>> arch/m68k/include/asm/thread_info.h. The legacy MMU m68k code does appear
>> to do as the comments say with respect to the TINFO flag bits.
>>
>> The ColdFire code was forked from the original arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S
>> a very long time back - there was some differences that needed to be dealt
>> with.
>>
>> Anyway what I am looking more closely at is if the higher TINFO flag bits
>> are actually not being checked at all - so things like single stepping.
> 
> For now would it be ok to just fix the reschedule flag for 68000 (i.e.
> I send a v2 that loads a single byte instead as you suggested). That
> would at least make it usable for me and the other few strange people
> using it. :)
> I have poked around at converting 68000 to the generic entry stuff. I
> think that would make most of this custom asm go away... but it'll
> take a while before its ready.

Yes, lets do that. Send a v2 and I will push into the m68knommu git tree.

Regards
Greg