Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945964Ab2JYNbf (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:31:35 -0400 Received: from usmamail.tilera.com ([12.216.194.151]:29346 "EHLO USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759057Ab2JYNbd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: <50893F33.10700@tilera.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:31:31 -0400 From: Chris Metcalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: , , Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <201210192041.q9JKf7jD003998@farm-0010.internal.tilera.com> <20121019213548.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <5082A1F1.3080303@tilera.com> <20121020153401.GT2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121020171643.GU2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <5086D432.4070008@tilera.com> <20121023184122.GZ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <5086EE7C.2080608@tilera.com> <20121023203620.GA2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121023203620.GA2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 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: 821 Lines: 21 On 10/23/2012 4:36 PM, Al Viro wrote: > Could you test the following on top of your patch? It gets rid of > regs use in sys_clone() *and* of the regs argument in copy_thread(). > If that work (including SMP - note that it changes the path taken > by copy_thread() when called by fork_idle()), that should be all > we'll need in arch/tile for killing idle_regs() and killing the pt_regs > passing to do_fork()/copy_process()/copy_thread(). It seems to work fine. Thanks! Acked-by: Chris Metcalf -- 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/