The 'stack_size' argument is never used to pass a stack size. It's only used
when
forking a kernel thread, in which case it is an argument which should be passed
to the 'main' function which the kernel thread executes. Hence, rename it to
'kthread_arg'.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeij...@gmail.com>
---
Hi,
Please have a look at this patch. If this is accepted, I have a series of
patches
ready for a similar cleanup to all the arch-specific implementations of
copy_thread()
(as suggested by Andrew Morton in a private e-mail).
Thank you,
Alex Dowad
kernel/fork.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index cf65139..b38a2ae 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1186,10 +1186,12 @@ init_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type
type, struct pid *pid)
* It copies the registers, and all the appropriate
* parts of the process environment (as per the clone
* flags). The actual kick-off is left to the caller.
+ *
+ * When copying a kernel thread, 'stack_start' is the function to run.
*/
static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
unsigned long stack_start,
- unsigned long stack_size,
+ unsigned long kthread_arg,
int __user *child_tidptr,
struct pid *pid,
int trace)
@@ -1401,7 +1403,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long
clone_flags,
retval = copy_io(clone_flags, p);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
- retval = copy_thread(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p);
+ retval = copy_thread(clone_flags, stack_start, kthread_arg, p);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
@@ -1629,8 +1631,8 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
* it and waits for it to finish using the VM if required.
*/
long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
- unsigned long stack_start,
- unsigned long stack_size,
+ unsigned long stack_start, /* or function for kthread to run */
+ unsigned long kthread_arg,
int __user *parent_tidptr,
int __user *child_tidptr)
{
@@ -1656,7 +1658,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
trace = 0;
}
- p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size,
+ p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, kthread_arg,
child_tidptr, NULL, trace);
/*
* Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
@@ -1740,7 +1742,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, newsp, unsigned
long, clone_flags,
int, tls_val)
#elif defined(CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3)
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
- int, stack_size,
+ int, ignored,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
int __user *, child_tidptr,
int, tls_val)
--
2.0.0.GIT
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