From 36cb0e1cda645ee645b85a6ce652cb46a16e14e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:17:28 -0500 Subject: 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" --- kernel/fork.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') 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); -- cgit