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Mask bits in pointers

Mask bits in pointers

Posted Mar 30, 2007 21:13 UTC (Fri) by venkip (subscriber, #37888)
In reply to: Mask bits in pointers by ldo
Parent article: Deferrable timers

Thing to note is that the pointers being reused are pointer to a per CPU structure that doesnt change over time. This structure is allocated at boot time and stays same. So, risk of coming back to biting me is slightly smaller :-)


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