Re: [RFC] Potential bug in kernel_thread() on i386.

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:25:22 +0200


Hi!

> Thus the RFC: I don't like how the kernel_thread() looks like on
> i386. I suspect that we should pass 0 in %ecx as it is done (modulo
> different registers, indeed) on sparc and sparc64, but maybe I'm missing
> some magic in sys_clone()/do_fork()/etc. Comments?

As far as I can see, ecx is realy uninitialized. Maybe you should
prepend __asm__ ( "mov 12345678,%ecx" ) and look if it does some harm?

Pavel

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