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* [PATCH 1/4] MN10300: Fix ret_from_kernel_thread [ver #2]
@ 2013-05-28 19:21 David Howells
  2013-05-28 19:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] MN10300: Enable IRQs more in system call exit work path " David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2013-05-28 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds; +Cc: Al Viro, linux-am33-list, linux-kernel, Ken Cox

ret_from_kernel_thread needs to set A2 to the thread_info pointer before
jumping to syscall_exit.

Without this, we never correctly start userspace.

This was caused by the rejuggling of the fork/exec paths in commit:

	ddf23e87a804cbf6fa3818076b33fe023cce09fd
	Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
	Date:   Thu Oct 11 17:32:41 2012 -0400
	Subject: mn10300: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics

Reported-by: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
---

 arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)


diff --git a/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S b/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
index 68fcab8..9420057 100644
--- a/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread)
 	mov	(REG_D0,fp),d0
 	mov	(REG_A0,fp),a0
 	calls	(a0)
+	GET_THREAD_INFO a2		# A2 must be set on return from sys_exit()
 	clr	d0
 	mov	d0,(REG_D0,fp)
 	jmp	syscall_exit


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2013-05-28 19:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] MN10300: ASB2305's PCI code needs the definition of XIRQ1 " David Howells
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