linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][CFT][CFReview] execve and kernel

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:16 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][CFReview] execve and kernel_thread unification work

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
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