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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:56:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: use KERNEL_DS when trying to start init process
To: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> ...Albeit by looking closer at the implementation of flush_old_exec()
> I think we should just move the set_fs() call there and remove it from
> the architecture dependent implementations of flush_thread() and
> start_thread().

Yeah, that sounds like the sane (and safe - it won't matter if there
are some architectures that get overlooked and then have a duplicate
set_fs() somewhere) approach.

                              Linus
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