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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	oleg@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	suresh@aristanetworks.com, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:17:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336695464.3881.71.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:33 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
> the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
> register state like fpu there.
> 
> Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.
> 
> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>

For the powerpc part:

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Cheers,
Ben.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 19:07 [PATCH 1/2] coredump: flush the fpu exit state for proper multi-threaded core dump Suresh Siddha
2012-05-07 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state() Suresh Siddha
2012-05-07 19:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] coredump: flush the fpu exit state for proper multi-threaded core dump Linus Torvalds
2012-05-07 20:09   ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-08 23:18     ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-08 23:18       ` [PATCH 1/3] " Suresh Siddha
2012-05-09 21:05         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-09 21:32           ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 16:55             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-10 17:04               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-10 23:33                 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct() Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 23:33                   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump Suresh Siddha
2012-05-11 16:51                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-11 19:05                       ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-13 16:11                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-15 18:03                           ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-15 18:55                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-17  0:17                     ` [tip:x86/fpu] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 23:33                   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state() Suresh Siddha
2012-05-17  0:18                     ` [tip:x86/fpu] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 23:33                   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit Suresh Siddha
2012-05-17  0:19                     ` [tip:x86/fpu] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2012-05-11  0:17                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-05-17  0:16                   ` [tip:x86/fpu] fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct() tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 23:48                 ` [PATCH 1/3] coredump: flush the fpu exit state for proper multi-threaded core dump Suresh Siddha
2012-05-08 23:18       ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state() Suresh Siddha
2012-05-09 20:30         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-09 21:18           ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-10 16:36             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-08 23:18       ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, fpu: clear the fpu state during thread exit Suresh Siddha

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