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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-11 03:28:25 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 19:35:07 +0200
commita74fb73c12398b250fdc5e333a11e15a9e3a84fc (patch)
tree2bec2f6e20320f5a4bc01d1e19d7190842ef1c37 /kernel/kthread.c
parentmake sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves (diff)
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infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index b579af57ea10..7ba65c1aa6b3 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <trace/events/sched.h>
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);