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authorAnton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>2012-10-29 11:15:37 +0100
committerAnton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>2012-10-29 11:15:37 +0100
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fedora kernel: cd394142aac30b5c751f25b517572e2448695641v3.6.3-2f17
Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/kernel/process.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index 153d3fce3e8..848ef4a51f9 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <asm/reg.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -54,8 +55,10 @@ cpu_idle(void)
/* FIXME -- EV6 and LCA45 know how to power down
the CPU. */
+ rcu_idle_enter();
while (!need_resched())
cpu_relax();
+ rcu_idle_exit();
schedule();
}
}
@@ -455,3 +458,22 @@ get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
}
return pc;
}
+
+int kernel_execve(const char *path, const char *const argv[], const char *const envp[])
+{
+ /* Avoid the HAE being gratuitously wrong, which would cause us
+ to do the whole turn off interrupts thing and restore it. */
+ struct pt_regs regs = {.hae = alpha_mv.hae_cache};
+ int err = do_execve(path, argv, envp, &regs);
+ if (!err) {
+ struct pt_regs *p = current_pt_regs();
+ /* copy regs to normal position and off to userland we go... */
+ *p = regs;
+ __asm__ __volatile__ (
+ "mov %0, $sp;"
+ "br $31, ret_from_sys_call"
+ : : "r"(p));
+ }
+ return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_execve);