linux-kernel - [PATCH] tile: fix "odd fault" warning for stack backtraces

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 14:37:04 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tile: fix "odd fault" warning for stack backtraces

We were setting ex1 in new kernel threads to KERNEL_PL.
But since we just do a simple context-switch, not an iret,
any value set here is ignored anyway, and its presence causes
stack backtraces to end with a warning about an "odd fault".

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
---
 arch/tile/kernel/process.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
index 0dddcf7e5bfa..96ea75e04582 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
 		       (CALLEE_SAVED_REGS_COUNT - 2) * sizeof(unsigned long));
 		callee_regs[0] = sp;   /* r30 = function */
 		callee_regs[1] = arg;  /* r31 = arg */
-		childregs->ex1 = PL_ICS_EX1(KERNEL_PL, 0);
 		p->thread.pc = (unsigned long) ret_from_kernel_thread;
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
2.1.2

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