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authorAlex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>2015-03-13 14:14:45 -0400
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>2015-04-24 07:45:55 -0400
commit5fec97d0e3d93717f1d6a958a03e579078088861 (patch)
tree7d47cc0f0db5f5bdff0d7a9f6f06f000cb588b70 /arch/parisc/kernel
parenta4e4f67f41d9bfcc2a00849a75712f09a7d43798 (diff)
parisc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'
The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and consistency with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of copy_thread()). Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/kernel/process.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
index 8a488c22a99f..809905a811ed 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -181,9 +181,12 @@ int dump_task_fpu (struct task_struct *tsk, elf_fpregset_t *r)
181 return 1; 181 return 1;
182} 182}
183 183
184/*
185 * Copy architecture-specific thread state
186 */
184int 187int
185copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp, 188copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
186 unsigned long arg, struct task_struct *p) 189 unsigned long kthread_arg, struct task_struct *p)
187{ 190{
188 struct pt_regs *cregs = &(p->thread.regs); 191 struct pt_regs *cregs = &(p->thread.regs);
189 void *stack = task_stack_page(p); 192 void *stack = task_stack_page(p);
@@ -195,11 +198,10 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
195 extern void * const child_return; 198 extern void * const child_return;
196 199
197 if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { 200 if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
201 /* kernel thread */
198 memset(cregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); 202 memset(cregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
199 if (!usp) /* idle thread */ 203 if (!usp) /* idle thread */
200 return 0; 204 return 0;
201
202 /* kernel thread */
203 /* Must exit via ret_from_kernel_thread in order 205 /* Must exit via ret_from_kernel_thread in order
204 * to call schedule_tail() 206 * to call schedule_tail()
205 */ 207 */
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
215#else 217#else
216 cregs->gr[26] = usp; 218 cregs->gr[26] = usp;
217#endif 219#endif
218 cregs->gr[25] = arg; 220 cregs->gr[25] = kthread_arg;
219 } else { 221 } else {
220 /* user thread */ 222 /* user thread */
221 /* usp must be word aligned. This also prevents users from 223 /* usp must be word aligned. This also prevents users from