Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

[Jan Beulich]

>> >Proposed patch appended. Jan, what do you think?
>> 
>> As said above - I thought we added zero-termination already.
>
>For head.S but not for kernel_thread I think. At least I can't
>find any existing code for kernel_thread().

2.6.18-git11 (i386) already has an annotated version of
kernel_thread_helper() in entry.S, including the pushing of a
fake (zero) return address. x86-64 has child_rip with the
added push even in original 2.6.18.

Jan
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