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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix prologue directives for sys_clone() and sys_clone2()]
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:43:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106099463822652@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106099247521466@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:07:41 -0700, John Byrne <john.l.byrne@hp.com> said:

  John> To my limited understanding, the GRSAVE portions of the .prologue
  John> directives for sys_clone() and sys_clone2() are incorrect. This patch, 
  John> against 2.6.0-test3, fixes them.

Thanks, I applied the patch.

  John> I also wonder whether the the continued usage of the 2
  John> argument form of clone() in kernel_thread() should be
  John> considered "bad form". Admittedly, the other arguments are
  John> don't-care as long as the various CLONE_ flags (which
  John> kernel_thread() does not mask off) are not set , but it just
  John> feels wrong. I guess I wouldn't be a programmer if I didn't
  John> like to pick nits.

clone() is a strict subset of clone2(), so some day we may want to
remove the former.

	--david

      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-16  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-16  0:07 [PATCH] Fix prologue directives for sys_clone() and sys_clone2()] John Byrne
2003-08-16  0:43 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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