From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Metcalf Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][CFReview] execve and kernel_thread unification work Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:16 -0400 Message-ID: <50747F80.4060503@tilera.com> References: <20121001213809.GA31155@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from usmamail.tilera.com ([12.216.194.151]:17145 "EHLO USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751927Ab2JITsT (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:48:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20121001213809.GA31155@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Al Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt On 10/1/2012 5:38 PM, Al Viro wrote: > There's an interesting ongoing project around kernel_thread() and > friends, including execve() variants. I really need help from architecture > maintainers on that one; I'd been able to handle (and test) quite a few > architectures on my own [alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86, um] > plus two more untested [frv, mn10300]. c6x patches had been supplied by > Mark Salter; everything else remains to be done. Right now it's at > minus 1.2KLoC, quite a bit of that removed from asm glue and other black > magic. I'll take a look at this for arch/tile this week. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com