From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: [update] Re: new execve/kernel_thread design Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:31:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20121026183107.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:53924 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965870Ab2JZSb3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:31:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , Jonas Bonn , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Chris Metcalf , Yoshinori Sato , Guan The situation got much better by now. More than a half of architectures are done - alpha arm arm64 c6x hexagon ia64 m68k mips openrisc parisc sparc tile um unicore32 and x86. Two more avait ACKs from maintainers - powerpc and s390. Should work, AFAICS. xtensa - Max was going to repost updated patches; waiting for that to happen, but essentially it's done and tested. microblaze - Michal was debugging kernel_execve side of it the last time I've heard from him... frv, mn10300 - dhowells was going to test those sh - Paul Mundt was going to test and send fixes avr32, blackfin, cris, h8300, m32r, score - no signs of life from maintainers. Folks, please show up and at least test the damn patchsets. Hell knows, they might even work - unicore32 one did, modulo trivial typo, to my deep surprise... From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:53924 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965870Ab2JZSb3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:31:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:31:07 +0100 From: Al Viro Subject: [update] Re: new execve/kernel_thread design Message-ID: <20121026183107.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , Jonas Bonn , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Chris Metcalf , Yoshinori Sato , Guan Xuetao Message-ID: <20121026183107.21yhkqGC99ip4iaBjmiQg9Eq27uneHSDY-Nna5BrgPw@z> The situation got much better by now. More than a half of architectures are done - alpha arm arm64 c6x hexagon ia64 m68k mips openrisc parisc sparc tile um unicore32 and x86. Two more avait ACKs from maintainers - powerpc and s390. Should work, AFAICS. xtensa - Max was going to repost updated patches; waiting for that to happen, but essentially it's done and tested. microblaze - Michal was debugging kernel_execve side of it the last time I've heard from him... frv, mn10300 - dhowells was going to test those sh - Paul Mundt was going to test and send fixes avr32, blackfin, cris, h8300, m32r, score - no signs of life from maintainers. Folks, please show up and at least test the damn patchsets. Hell knows, they might even work - unicore32 one did, modulo trivial typo, to my deep surprise...