Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall

Linus Torvalds
2009-09-30T16:29:36Z

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> One more argument for this is that the new code is architecture independent
> using user_stack_pointer(), while the original sys_clone is highly
> architecture specific, which is a source for bugs when trying to
> extend it.

Umm. I don't think that is possible.

You need architecture-specific code to even get access to all registers to
copy and get a signal-handler-compatible stack frame. See for example
arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S with the switch-stack thing etc. I don't think
there is any way to make that even remotely architecture-neutral.

Linus