Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030831AbWJDL5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:57:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030208AbWJDL5r (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:57:47 -0400 Received: from gwmail.nue.novell.com ([195.135.221.19]:1250 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030831AbWJDL5q (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:57:46 -0400 Message-Id: <4523BE20.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:58:56 +0200 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Andi Kleen" Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , "Eric Rannaud" , "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Chandra Seetharaman" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , Subject: Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18) References: <5f3c152b0609301220p7a487c7dw456d007298578cd7@mail.gmail.com> <200609302230.24070.ak@suse.de> <45239A38.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <200610041252.48721.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200610041252.48721.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 18 >> >Proposed patch appended. Jan, what do you think? >> >> As said above - I thought we added zero-termination already. > >For head.S but not for kernel_thread I think. At least I can't >find any existing code for kernel_thread(). 2.6.18-git11 (i386) already has an annotated version of kernel_thread_helper() in entry.S, including the pushing of a fake (zero) return address. x86-64 has child_rip with the added push even in original 2.6.18. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/