Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:43:08 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:28:40PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Please, let's do this instead:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:30:06PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > +task_t * __init __fork_idle(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs) > +{ > + task_t *task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, regs, 0, NULL, NULL, 0); > if (!task) > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > init_idle(task, cpu);
This still doesn't eliminate the branch in ia64's copy_thread(). The best solution possible would be to redo the whole affair as an ia64-specific cleanup pass, and to find some initial setting of regs that works for all architectures (it seems memset(®s, 0, ...) doesn't).
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