Commit df59e7bf authored by Brian Gerst's avatar Brian Gerst Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86: Merge kernel_thread()

Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent f443ff42
......@@ -243,6 +243,41 @@ sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp,
return do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, regs, 0, parent_tid, child_tid);
}
/*
* This gets run with %si containing the
* function to call, and %di containing
* the "args".
*/
extern void kernel_thread_helper(void);
/*
* Create a kernel thread
*/
int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
struct pt_regs regs;
memset(&regs, 0, sizeof(regs));
regs.si = (unsigned long) fn;
regs.di = (unsigned long) arg;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
regs.ds = __USER_DS;
regs.es = __USER_DS;
regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
#endif
regs.orig_ax = -1;
regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper;
regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl();
regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | 0x2;
/* Ok, create the new process.. */
return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
/*
* sys_execve() executes a new program.
......
......@@ -192,42 +192,6 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
show_trace(NULL, regs, &regs->sp, regs->bp);
}
/*
* This gets run with %si containing the
* function to call, and %di containing
* the "args".
*/
extern void kernel_thread_helper(void);
/*
* Create a kernel thread
*/
int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
struct pt_regs regs;
memset(&regs, 0, sizeof(regs));
regs.si = (unsigned long) fn;
regs.di = (unsigned long) arg;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
regs.ds = __USER_DS;
regs.es = __USER_DS;
regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
#endif
regs.orig_ax = -1;
regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper;
regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl();
regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | 0x2;
/* Ok, create the new process.. */
return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
{
BUG_ON(dead_task->mm);
......
......@@ -229,42 +229,6 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
show_trace(NULL, regs, (void *)(regs + 1), regs->bp);
}
/*
* This gets run with %si containing the
* function to call, and %di containing
* the "args".
*/
extern void kernel_thread_helper(void);
/*
* Create a kernel thread
*/
int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
struct pt_regs regs;
memset(&regs, 0, sizeof(regs));
regs.si = (unsigned long) fn;
regs.di = (unsigned long) arg;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
regs.ds = __USER_DS;
regs.es = __USER_DS;
regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
#endif
regs.orig_ax = -1;
regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper;
regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl();
regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | 0x2;
/* Ok, create the new process.. */
return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
{
if (dead_task->mm) {
......
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