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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:25:05 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:31:31AM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> 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!

Thanks.  Put into no-rebase mode.