Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct() | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 11 May 2012 10:17:44 +1000 |
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On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:33 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote: > Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of > the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended > register state like fpu there. > > Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead. > > Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
For the powerpc part:
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cheers, Ben.
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