Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354Ab2JQQUA (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:20:00 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:55933 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757385Ab2JQQT4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:19:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:19:53 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Michal Simek Cc: Jonas Bonn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Chris Metcalf , Yoshinori Sato , Guan Xuetao Subject: Re: new execve/kernel_thread design Message-ID: <20121017161953.GZ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121017160702.GY2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121017160702.GY2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1775 Lines: 29 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:07:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > What happens during boot is this: > * init_task (not to be confused with init) is used as current during > infrastructure initializations. Once everything needed for scheduler and > for working fork is set, we spawn two threads - future init and future > kthreadd. The last thing we do with init_task is telling init that kthreadd > has been spawned. After that init_task turns itself into an idle thread. > * future init waits for kthreadd to be spawned (it would be more > natural to fork them in opposite order, but we want init to have PID 1 - > too much stuff in userland depends on that). Then it does the rest of > initialization, including setting up initramfs contents. And does > kernel_execve() on /init. Note that this is a task that had been created > by kernel_thread() and is currently in function called from > ret_from_kernel_thread(). Its kernel stack has been set up by copy_thread(). > That's where pt_regs need to be set up; note that they'll be passed to > start_thread() before you return to userland. If there are any magic bits > in pt_regs needed by return-from-syscall code, set them in kthread case of > copy_thread(). PS: I suspect that we end up with the wrong value in childregs->msr; start_thread() only add MSR_UMS there. I'd suggest running the kernel with these patches + printk childregs->msr the very first time start_thread() is called and see what it prints, then working kernel + such printk and compare the results... -- 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/