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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-09-21 19:55:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-09-30 13:35:55 -0400 |
| commit | 2aa3a7f8660355c3dddead17e224545c1a3d5a5f (patch) | |
| tree | d106fcaeb6b66e09591cf8ec28c836be93f4d837 /include/linux/sched.h | |
| parent | a4d94ff8aa864c05b33c2de1f8c5d0176d7a4b63 (diff) | |
preparation for generic kernel_thread()
Let architectures select GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and have their copy_thread()
treat NULL regs as "it came from kernel_thread(), sp argument contains
the function new thread will be calling and stack_size - the argument for
that function". Switching the architectures begins shortly...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 23bddac4bad8..34da9340c6a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2325,6 +2325,9 @@ extern int do_execve(const char *, const char __user * const __user *, struct pt_regs *); extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, unsigned long, int __user *, int __user *); struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD +extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags); +#endif extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *from); extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk); |