Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 09:31:23 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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