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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-21 15:52:04 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-11-28 21:49:04 -0500
commit25906730ec01be664534c9439d7cf5a373e8a4e4 (patch)
tree0fc3a2d0a08e5bdd815d61371b52ea2ccdc8cfa2 /arch/alpha/kernel
parentb960f303448969c6cb76b4df9291e9e6213e2b9f (diff)
alpha: reorganize copy_process(), prepare to saner fork_idle()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/kernel/process.c35
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index ad86c099b6f5..a4dc79ba030f 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -266,18 +266,22 @@ alpha_vfork(void)
int
copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
unsigned long arg,
- struct task_struct * p, struct pt_regs * regs)
+ struct task_struct *p, struct pt_regs *wontuse)
{
extern void ret_from_fork(void);
extern void ret_from_kernel_thread(void);
struct thread_info *childti = task_thread_info(p);
struct pt_regs *childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
+ struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
struct switch_stack *childstack, *stack;
unsigned long settls;
childstack = ((struct switch_stack *) childregs) - 1;
- if (unlikely(!regs)) {
+ childti->pcb.ksp = (unsigned long) childstack;
+ childti->pcb.flags = 1; /* set FEN, clear everything else */
+
+ if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
/* kernel thread */
memset(childstack, 0,
sizeof(struct switch_stack) + sizeof(struct pt_regs));
@@ -286,12 +290,17 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
childstack->r10 = arg;
childregs->hae = alpha_mv.hae_cache,
childti->pcb.usp = 0;
- childti->pcb.ksp = (unsigned long) childstack;
- childti->pcb.flags = 1; /* set FEN, clear everything else */
return 0;
}
+ /* Note: if CLONE_SETTLS is not set, then we must inherit the
+ value from the parent, which will have been set by the block
+ copy in dup_task_struct. This is non-intuitive, but is
+ required for proper operation in the case of a threaded
+ application calling fork. */
+ if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
+ childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20;
+ childti->pcb.usp = usp ?: rdusp();
*childregs = *regs;
- settls = regs->r20;
childregs->r0 = 0;
childregs->r19 = 0;
childregs->r20 = 1; /* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics. */
@@ -299,22 +308,6 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
*childstack = *stack;
childstack->r26 = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
- childti->pcb.usp = usp ?: rdusp();
- childti->pcb.ksp = (unsigned long) childstack;
- childti->pcb.flags = 1; /* set FEN, clear everything else */
-
- /* Set a new TLS for the child thread? Peek back into the
- syscall arguments that we saved on syscall entry. Oops,
- except we'd have clobbered it with the parent/child set
- of r20. Read the saved copy. */
- /* Note: if CLONE_SETTLS is not set, then we must inherit the
- value from the parent, which will have been set by the block
- copy in dup_task_struct. This is non-intuitive, but is
- required for proper operation in the case of a threaded
- application calling fork. */
- if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
- childti->pcb.unique = settls;
-
return 0;
}