From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757202Ab2JQOHG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:07:06 -0400 Received: from mail.southpole.se ([193.12.106.18]:59622 "EHLO mail.southpole.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631Ab2JQOHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:07:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:07:00 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: new execve/kernel_thread design From: Jonas Bonn To: Al Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linus-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Chris Metcalf , Yoshinori Sato , Guan Xuetao Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Assp-Version: 2.2.1(12265) on assp.southpole.se X-Assp-Client-SSL: yes X-Assp-Server-TLS: yes X-Assp-ID: assp.southpole.se 82821-04587 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17 October 2012 00:35, Al Viro wrote: > > Not even a tentative patchset: hexagon, openrisc, tile, xtensa. > I did most of the OpenRISC conversion last weekend... the kernel_thread bits work fine but I end up with the init thread dying with what I've got now for kernel_execve. Once I've got that sorted out, I'll pass this along to you. Thanks for the above explanation... it took me a good while to wrap my head around how this was supposed to work from reading through the arch's that you had already converted. All in all, though, I find it's a nice cleanup and, conceptually, an improvement over what we had before. Thanks, Jonas