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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>, Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/process: Export start_thread()
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:30:07 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1808200927550.2151@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53141AE9-7192-432B-8A27-25986CF442D4@amacapital.net>

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Aug 19, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Commit e634d8fc792c ("x86-64: merge the standard and compat
> > start_thread() functions") removed exporting for the start_thread()
> > function in what seems like a typo. Add it back to
> > arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c for parity with process_32.c and other
> > arch.
> 
> What for?  Perhaps 32-bit could remove it instead?

No. start_thread() is called from various binfmt implementations which can
be built as modules.

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-19 23:08 [PATCH] x86/process: Export start_thread() Rian Hunter
2018-08-20  2:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-20  4:34   ` Rian Hunter
2018-08-20  7:30   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-08-20 14:27     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-20 16:11 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/process: Re-export start_thread() tip-bot for Rian Hunter

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