Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Feb 11 2009 - 09:44:10 EST


Eh... I missed an adjective.

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Well, tracking down why run_init_process() is returning 0 with
> -fstack-protector wasn't much of fun. These breakages are very subtle
> and if we're gonna pass in pointer to pt_regs anyway and thus can
> guarantee such breakage can't happen at no additional cost, I think we
> should do that even if it means slightly more argument fetching in a
^
verbose
> few places.


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tejun
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