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

Chris Metcalf
2012-10-09T19:48:22Z

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.

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.