Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Alex Dowad wrote: > I've just been searching for history on sys_clone2() but have come up empty. > "git blame" isn't helping, either... the current code dates back before the > start of the git history. There are several trees containing more history (e.g. from bi

Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Dowad
On 14/03/15 01:21, David Rientjes wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: 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 wh

Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Dowad
On 14/03/15 01:04, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: 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 w

Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-13 Thread David Rientjes
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > > 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

Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-13 Thread josh
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > 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, r

Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-13 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Fri 2015-03-13 20:04 +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > 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

[PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

2015-03-13 Thread Alex Dowad
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 --- Hi, The fo