Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:45:32 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 |
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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);
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:43:08PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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).
"whole affair" == NULL check in copy_thread(). Except this is a nop, so I think we're just looking for something that survives copy_thread().
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