Re: [PATCH 01/32] do_fork(): Rename 'stack_size' argument to reflect actual use

[josh]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote:
> The 'stack_size' argument is never used to pass a stack size. It's only used when
> forking a kernel thread, in which case it is an argument which should be passed
> to the 'main' function which the kernel thread executes. Hence, rename it to
> 'kthread_arg'.

That's not the only use of stack_size.  Take a look at the clone2 system
call (very minimally documented in the clone manpage) and the
implementation of copy_thread on ia64, which does use stack_size in the
non-kthread path.

- Josh Triplett
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