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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-12-09 20:34:44 +0300 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-12-11 03:41:31 +0300 |
| commit | df59e7bf439918f523ac29e996ec1eebbed60440 (patch) | |
| tree | a847eb0b7f0e3fe34a717999db0d441e7f7e7bd6 /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | |
| parent | f443ff4201dd25cd4dec183f9919ecba90c8edc2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-df59e7bf439918f523ac29e996ec1eebbed60440.tar.xz | |
x86: Merge kernel_thread()
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index d49a9094f6f3..1a362c5bec37 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -229,42 +229,6 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs) show_trace(NULL, regs, (void *)(regs + 1), regs->bp); } -/* - * This gets run with %si containing the - * function to call, and %di containing - * the "args". - */ -extern void kernel_thread_helper(void); - -/* - * Create a kernel thread - */ -int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) -{ - struct pt_regs regs; - - memset(®s, 0, sizeof(regs)); - - regs.si = (unsigned long) fn; - regs.di = (unsigned long) arg; - -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - regs.ds = __USER_DS; - regs.es = __USER_DS; - regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU; - regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY; -#endif - - regs.orig_ax = -1; - regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper; - regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl(); - regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | 0x2; - - /* Ok, create the new process.. */ - return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, ®s, 0, NULL, NULL); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread); - void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task) { if (dead_task->mm) { |