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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-15 20:33:22 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-15 20:33:28 +0100
commitab1eebe77dd08b26585860d534e07810d1cd274d (patch)
tree92b1ff0952cbdeef34922c43ff7eaac2162e77c4 /arch/x86/kernel/process.c
parent186a25026c44d1bfa97671110ff14dcd0c99678e (diff)
parentdf59e7bf439918f523ac29e996ec1eebbed60440 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: it's stable so lets push it upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c70
1 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 7a7bd4e3ec4..98c2cdeb599 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -255,6 +255,76 @@ int sys_vfork(struct pt_regs *regs)
NULL, NULL);
}
+long
+sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp,
+ void __user *parent_tid, void __user *child_tid, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ if (!newsp)
+ newsp = regs->sp;
+ 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.
+ */
+long sys_execve(char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv,
+ char __user * __user *envp, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ long error;
+ char *filename;
+
+ filename = getname(name);
+ error = PTR_ERR(filename);
+ if (IS_ERR(filename))
+ return error;
+ error = do_execve(filename, argv, envp, regs);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+ if (error == 0) {
+ /* Make sure we don't return using sysenter.. */
+ set_thread_flag(TIF_IRET);
+ }
+#endif
+
+ putname(filename);
+ return error;
+}
/*
* Idle related variables and functions