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Eric W. Biederman 5e354747b2 exit/s390: Remove dead reference to do_exit from copy_thread 
My s390 assembly is not particularly good so I have read the history
of the reference to do_exit copy_thread and have been able to
verify that do_exit is not used.

The general argument is that s390 has been changed to use the generic
kernel_thread and kernel_execve and the generic versions do not call
do_exit.  So it is strange to see a do_exit reference sitting there.

The history of the do_exit reference in s390's version of copy_thread
seems conclusive that the do_exit reference is something that lingers
and should have been removed several years ago.

Up through 8d19f15a60be ("[PATCH] s390 update (1/27): arch.")  the
s390 code made a call to the exit(2) system call when a kernel thread
finished.  Then kernel_thread_starter was added which branched
directly to the value in register 11 when the kernel thread finshed.
The value in register 11 was set in kernel_thread to
"regs.gprs[11] = (unsigned long) do_exit"

In commit 37fe5d41f6 ("s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into
ret_from_fork()") kernel_thread_starter was moved into entry.S and
entry64.S unchanged (except for the syntax differences between inline
assemly and in the assembly file).

In commit f9a7e025df ("s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()") the
assignment to "gprs[11]" was moved into copy_thread from the old
kernel_thread.  The helper kernel_thread_starter was still being used
and was still branching to "%r11" at the end.

In commit 30dcb0996e ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve()
semantics") kernel_thread_starter was changed to unconditionally
branch to sysc_tracenogo instead to %r11 which held the value of
do_exit.  Unfortunately copy_thread was not updated to stop passing
do_exit in "gprs[11]".

In commit 56e62a7370 ("s390: convert to generic entry")
kernel_thread_starter was replaced by __ret_from_fork.  And the code
still continued to pass do_exit in "gprs[11]" despite __ret_from_fork
not caring in the slightest.

Remove this dead reference to do_exit to make it clear that s390 is
not doing anything with do_exit in copy_thread.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: 30dcb0996e ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-13 12:03:47 -06:00
arch exit/s390: Remove dead reference to do_exit from copy_thread 2021-12-13 12:03:47 -06:00
block blk-mq: fix filesystem I/O request allocation 2021-11-12 09:31:13 -07:00
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Documentation Devicetree fixes for v5.16, take 1: 2021-11-14 11:11:51 -08:00
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virt KVM: generalize "bugged" VM to "dead" VM 2021-11-11 10:35:26 -05:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - Add the model number of a new, Raptor Lake CPU, to intel-family.h 2021-11-14 09:29:03 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.16-rc1 2021-11-14 13:56:52 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.