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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2016-08-13 12:38:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-08-24 12:31:50 +0200 |
| commit | 616d24835eeafa8ef3466479db028abfdfc77531 (patch) | |
| tree | 855895f0566a9c7b7b1996cbee1a384995b5a068 /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | |
| parent | 0100301bfdf56a2a370c7157b5ab0fbf9313e1cd (diff) | |
sched/x86: Pass kernel thread parameters in 'struct fork_frame'
Instead of setting up a fake pt_regs context, put the kernel thread
function pointer and arg into the unused callee-restored registers
of 'struct fork_frame'.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 827eeed03e16..b812cd0d7889 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ #include <asm/switch_to.h> #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h> -asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(void); - __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, rsp_scratch); /* Prints also some state that isn't saved in the pt_regs */ @@ -165,15 +163,11 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { /* kernel thread */ memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); - childregs->sp = (unsigned long)childregs; - childregs->ss = __KERNEL_DS; - childregs->bx = sp; /* function */ - childregs->bp = arg; - childregs->orig_ax = -1; - childregs->cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl(); - childregs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED; + frame->bx = sp; /* function */ + frame->r12 = arg; return 0; } + frame->bx = 0; *childregs = *current_pt_regs(); childregs->ax = 0; |