Re: [PATCH] init: use KERNEL_DS when trying to start init process

[Mathias Krause]

On 09.06.2011, 17:56 Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> ...Albeit by looking closer at the implementation of flush_old_exec()
>> I think we should just move the set_fs() call there and remove it from
>> the architecture dependent implementations of flush_thread() and
>> start_thread().
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like the sane (and safe - it won't matter if there
> are some architectures that get overlooked and then have a duplicate
> set_fs() somewhere) approach.

So the only question left: Should it be one patch moving the set_fs() call to
flush_old_exec() and also removing the redundant calls in flush_thread() and
start_thread() or should that be split into one for the set_fs() move and
multiple ones for the arch specific set_fs() remove?

Mathias--
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