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authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>2016-08-13 12:38:20 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-24 12:31:50 +0200
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sched/x86: Pass kernel thread parameters in 'struct fork_frame'
Instead of setting up a fake pt_regs context, put the kernel thread function pointer and arg into the unused callee-restored registers of 'struct fork_frame'. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 886d5ea..5cb436a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
#endif
}
+asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
+
/* data that is pointed to by thread.sp */
struct inactive_task_frame {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
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