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
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2003-08-16 0:07 [PATCH] Fix prologue directives for sys_clone() and sys_clone2()] John Byrne
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