Arnd Bergmann [[email protected]] wrote:
| 
| I wonder if we can avoid spreading copies of this function across
| all architectures.
| 
| Would it be possible to define it like this?

Since this is a variant of clone() and clone is listed as a PTREGSCALL(),
I pass in the pt_regs.

arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S lists clone() under this comment:

/*
 * System calls that need a pt_regs pointer.
 */

Is there a guideline on what system calls use/need pt_regs ?

Thanks,

Suakdev

| 
| asmlinkage long
| clone_with_pids(int flags, unsigned long child_stack_base, int __user 
*parent_tid_ptr,
|                        int __user *child_tid_ptr, struct pid_set __user 
*pid_setp)
| {
|       if (!child_stack_base) {
|               struct pt_regs *regs;
| 
|               regs = task_pt_regs(current);
|               child_stack_base = user_stack_pointer(regs);
|       }
| 
|       return do_fork_with_pids(clone_flags, child_stack_base, 0,
|               parent_tid_ptr, child_tid_ptr, pid_setp);
| }
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