Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756756Ab2JITsW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:22 -0400 Received: from usmamail.tilera.com ([12.216.194.151]:17145 "EHLO USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751927Ab2JITsT (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:19 -0400 Message-ID: <50747F80.4060503@tilera.com> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:16 -0400 From: Chris Metcalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: , Linus Torvalds , , David Miller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][CFReview] execve and kernel_thread unification work References: <20121001213809.GA31155@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121001213809.GA31155@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 20 On 10/1/2012 5:38 PM, Al Viro wrote: > There's an interesting ongoing project around kernel_thread() and > friends, including execve() variants. I really need help from architecture > maintainers on that one; I'd been able to handle (and test) quite a few > architectures on my own [alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86, um] > plus two more untested [frv, mn10300]. c6x patches had been supplied by > Mark Salter; everything else remains to be done. Right now it's at > minus 1.2KLoC, quite a bit of that removed from asm glue and other black > magic. I'll take a look at this for arch/tile this week. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com -- 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/