Re: [RFC][CFT][CFReview] execve and kernel_thread unification work

Al Viro
2012-10-06T16:20:02Z

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:07:47PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Al,
>
> On 1 October 2012 22:38, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Right now the tree lives in
> > git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal experimental-kernel_thread
> > Some of that had been in -next for a while.
> >
> > Folks, help with review, testing and filling the missing bits, please.
>
> I tested this branch with the arm64 kernel and runs ok (I get couple
> of compiler warnings because reparent_to_kthread and
> __set_special_pids are no longer used with the removal of daemonize).

Applied and pushed. Also there - folded fixes from jejb into parisc part,
optimizations of the fork-related paths in parisc on top of that (completely
untested), fixed the sparc64 breakage davem had spotted yesterday.