[RFC] RISC-V: Don't set CLONE_BACKWARDS

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 20:28:14 EST


During the glibc upstreaming it was suggested that CLONE_BACKWARDS was a
deprecated ABI decision. I think we just copied it from ARM, but I
don't see any reason to favor one over the other.

While we haven't released yet so I think it's still legal to change our
ABI, I'd actually kind of prefer to avoid changing our ABI this late in
the game. I guess this is more of an RFC than a patch: is there a
reason to avoid CLONE_BACKWARDS?

Note that I haven't tried any of this -- I'll give it some thourough
testing and submit an actual patch if this is the way we want to go.

CC: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 2c6adf12713a..02076f3a2883 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ config RISCV
select OF_IRQ
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
- select CLONE_BACKWARDS
select COMMON_CLK
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
--
2.13.6