linux-kernel - Re: new execve/kernel

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:54:40 -0500
From:	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linus-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Hirokazu Takata <takata@...ux-m32r.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: new execve/kernel_thread design

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:35:08PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Maintainers are Cc'd.  My (very, _very_ tentative) patchsets are in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal arch-$ARCH
> 
> Nearly in the same state: ia64.  The only difference is that I've tested
> it under ski(1) and it seems to work.  Accuracy of ski(1) for the purposes
> of finding bugs in asm glue is not inspiring, though.
> 
> Not even a tentative patchset: hexagon, openrisc, tile, xtensa.
> 
> I would very much appreciate ACKs/testing/fixes/outright replacements/etc.
> for this stuff.  Right now all infrastructure is in the mainline and
> per-architecture bits are entirely independent from each other.  As soon
> as maintainer in question is OK with what's in such per-architecture branch,
> I'll be quite happy to put it into never-rebased mode, so that it would be
> safe to pull.  There are some fun things that'll become possible once
> all architectures are converted, but let's handle that stuff first, OK?

Latest version of the Hexagon patches look good.  Thanks!

Acked-by:  Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>


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