From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm6
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:51:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709025151.GV21066@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40EE06B1.1090202@yahoo.com.au>
David S. Miller wrote:
>> The parent's regs (stored in current_thread_info() at trap time,
>> and also needed by copy_thread() processing) will also be garbage
>> since we're avoiding the fork syscall trap.
>> In short, this won't work :)
>> This is why I use kernel_thread(). Why is that so bad?
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:45:05PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> We could make CLONE_IDLETASK clones not do the wakeup?
> Ingo? I guess an alternative is to have the arch explicitly
> make a call to dequeue it.
This is all just context switching and bootstrap ordering, but I really
have other vastly more urgent things to do at the moment than cleanups.
Please present a self-contained fixed-up init_idle() cleanup for me to
testboot. Even the one in -mm is not so, as it depends on later patches
to even compile.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-05 9:31 2.6.7-mm6 Andrew Morton
2004-07-05 10:18 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-05 10:44 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-05 10:32 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Redeeman
2004-07-05 13:54 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Frieder Buerzele
2004-07-05 14:41 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Redeeman
2004-07-05 10:39 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Martin Zwickel
2004-07-05 19:04 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Jurgen Kramer
2004-07-05 20:38 ` 2.6.7-mm6 - ppc32 inconsistent kallsyms data Joseph Fannin
2004-07-05 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 2:06 ` Keith Owens
2004-07-06 7:31 ` Keith Owens
2004-07-06 7:43 ` Keith Owens
2004-07-06 20:54 ` Joseph Fannin
2004-07-06 9:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-07-06 12:28 ` Keith Owens
2004-07-05 22:52 ` 2.6.7-mm6: ALSA: vortex_asXtalkGainsAllChan multiple definitions Adrian Bunk
2004-07-05 22:56 ` [patch] 2.6.7-mm6: let CDROM_PKTCDVD depend on experimental Adrian Bunk
2004-07-06 6:49 ` USB Lockups with 2.6.7-mm6, was Re: 2.6.7-mm6 Ralf Hildebrandt
2004-07-06 12:54 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-06 17:51 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-07-06 18:55 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-07-06 23:12 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-06 23:55 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-07 5:15 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-07-07 6:37 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-07 12:47 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-07-07 12:55 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-07 16:31 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-07 17:15 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-07-07 19:05 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-06 22:34 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 22:45 ` 2.6.7-mm6 David S. Miller
2004-07-06 22:52 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-06 23:07 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Russell King
2004-07-06 23:36 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-07 0:02 ` 2.6.7-mm6 David S. Miller
2004-07-07 2:29 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Nick Piggin
2004-07-07 7:35 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Ingo Molnar
2004-07-07 21:02 ` 2.6.7-mm6 David S. Miller
2004-07-09 2:45 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 2:51 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-09 5:09 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 6:29 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Ingo Molnar
2004-07-09 6:58 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 7:07 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 7:16 ` 2.6.7-mm6 William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-06 14:49 ` 2.6.7-mm6 - USB problems Jesse Stockall
2004-07-07 16:44 ` 2.6.7-mm6 Jesse Barnes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-05 14:41 2.6.7-mm6 Martin Knoblauch
2004-07-06 13:42 2.6.7-mm6 Dmitry Torokhov
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