Re: [PATCH] kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Vegard Nossum
<vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This fixes a regression in commit 4d6501dce079 where I didn't notice
> that MIPS and OpenRISC were reinitialising p->{set,clear}_child_tid to
> NULL after our initialisation in copy_process().

Ok, I'll just take this directly, since it's such an odd set of architectures.

I guess it could come in through the next "misc fixes" pull request
from the -tip tree (which is where the change that broke this came
from), but ..

             Linus