fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread

The architectures ia64 and parisc have special handling for the idle
thread in copy_process.  Add a flag named idle to kernel_clone_args
and use it to explicity test if an idle process is being created.

Fullfill the expectations of the rest of the copy_thread
implemetations and pass a function pointer in .stack from fork_idle().
This makes what is happening in copy_thread better defined, and is
useful to make idle threads less special.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d39a248a8d8d..93d77ee921ff 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2544,12 +2544,21 @@ static inline void init_idle_pids(struct task_struct *idle)
 	}
 }
 
+static int idle_dummy(void *dummy)
+{
+	/* This function is never called */
+	return 0;
+}
+
 struct task_struct * __init fork_idle(int cpu)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	struct kernel_clone_args args = {
 		.flags		= CLONE_VM,
+		.stack		= (unsigned long)&idle_dummy,
+		.stack_size	= (unsigned long)NULL,
 		.kthread	= 1,
+		.idle		= 1,
 	};
 
 	task = copy_process(&init_struct_pid, 0, cpu_to_node(cpu), &args);