Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:51:51 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-mm6 |
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David S. Miller wrote: >> The parent's regs (stored in current_thread_info() at trap time, >> and also needed by copy_thread() processing) will also be garbage >> since we're avoiding the fork syscall trap. >> In short, this won't work :) >> This is why I use kernel_thread(). Why is that so bad?
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:45:05PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > We could make CLONE_IDLETASK clones not do the wakeup? > Ingo? I guess an alternative is to have the arch explicitly > make a call to dequeue it.
This is all just context switching and bootstrap ordering, but I really have other vastly more urgent things to do at the moment than cleanups. Please present a self-contained fixed-up init_idle() cleanup for me to testboot. Even the one in -mm is not so, as it depends on later patches to even compile.
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