On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:46:39PM +0200, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> copy_thread can use current_pt_regs() to get the pt_regs data that
> it needs so there's no need to pass this in as an argument.
>
> As do_fork() doesn't use the regs argument for anything other than
> to pass it straight through to copy_thread, we just pass in a NULL
> argument in its place. The plan seems to be to eventually drop the
> regs argument to do_fork altogether.
Hmm... That's the plan, all right, but we need one more thing before
it's safe to pass NULL here.
if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_UNTRACED) && likely(user_mode(regs))) {
in do_fork() should (and can right now, no prereqs for that one) become
simply
if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_UNTRACED)) {
kernel_thread() *always* passes CLONE_UNTRACED, so it's not just "likely",
it's "always true if we get to evaluating that sucker in the first place".
FWIW, I think that merging that into mainline would be a good idea -
it would make life simpler and it's obviously safe. Another thing I probably
want to push to Linus, for pretty much the same reasons: generic variants
of fork/vfork/clone, selected by matching __ARCH_WANT_SYS_...; obviously
safe and allows to do that unification in per-arch trees. Less PITA
regarding the merge ordering that way...
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