Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:07:16 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve |
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* tip-bot for Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID: f19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2 > Author: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> > AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:33 -0500 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > CommitDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:14 -0800 > > x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve > > Execve historically passed regs by value, so it had a seperate stub. > This is no longer true, so change it to use a normal PTREGSCALL stub. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> > LKML-Reference: <1264434453-2204-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 17 +---------------- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
FYI, -tip testing found that this commit breaks the grub binary on 64-bit, simply running /sbin/grub causes it to segfault:
[ 3145.999766] grub[6706] general protection ip:805c481 sp:ff95629c error:0 in grub[8048000+8c000]
i've excluded this commit for now.
Ingo
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