On Fri, 2015-13-03 at 18:14:46 UTC, Alex Dowad wrote:This series of patches includes one patch which renames the arg for do_fork(), and others which rename the same arg for each arch-specific implementation of copy_thread(). So if all of them are accepted and merged, then all will be consistent. If only some of the patches are accepted, I will rewrite the commit message so it doesn't mention "consistency".
The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a newI don't understand the bit about consistency with do_fork() ?
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and consistency
with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of copy_thread()).
Otherwise it looks fine.
cheers