Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] xtensa: conversion to generic kernel_thread and friends

[czankel <chris@zankel.net>]

Hi Max,

Has anything changed from the version that's already in linux-next? I 
wanted to push that version upstream today.

Thanks,
-Chris


On 10/29/12 7:56 AM, Max Filippov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is v2 of xtensa conversion to generic kernel_thread and friends series,
> for inclusion into git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
> tree.
>
> Changes v1 ->  v2:
> - rebase on top of czankel/xtensa-linux dev branch; a fix to copy_thread from
>    that branch on which kernel_thread conversion depends is also included;
> - move pt_regs memset from copy_thread to start_thread;
> - drop {set,clear}_child_tid manipulation;
> - don't look at regs argument to copy_thread;
> - move zero newsp logic from xtensa_clone to copy_thread.
>
> Chris Zankel (1):
>    xtensa: reset windowbase/windowstart when cloning the VM
>
> Max Filippov (3):
>    xtensa: switch to generic kernel_thread()
>    xtensa: switch to generic kernel_execve()
>    xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve()
>
>   arch/xtensa/Kconfig                   |    2 +
>   arch/xtensa/include/asm/processor.h   |    4 +-
>   arch/xtensa/include/asm/syscall.h     |    2 +-
>   arch/xtensa/include/asm/unistd.h      |    1 +
>   arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h |    2 +-
>   arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S            |   57 ++++-----------
>   arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c          |  128 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c     |    1 -
>   8 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
>