linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:31:31 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE

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 <cmetcalf@...era.com>

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