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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2021-06-30 09:02:28 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2021-06-30 09:02:28 +0200
commit5a94296bc02ac616336da7b5332b86d2ca8827f0 (patch)
treed13c4e7db2b4b01adb87fbf2ea5bafd2dc920b2f /arch/x86/kernel/process.c
parent3b770932eefb7c0c6319d332023efee87eb12913 (diff)
parent24a31ea94922d391a96a9dd0a9a830de65423817 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-5.14/amd-sfh' into for-linus
- support for Renoir and Cezanne SoCs - support for Ambient Light Sensor - support for Human Presence Detection sensor all from Basavaraj Natikar
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c19
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 43cbfc84153ae..5e1f38179f495 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
#endif
/* Kernel thread ? */
- if (unlikely(p->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER))) {
+ if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
kthread_frame_init(frame, sp, arg);
return 0;
@@ -172,6 +172,23 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
task_user_gs(p) = get_user_gs(current_pt_regs());
#endif
+ if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)) {
+ /*
+ * An IO thread is a user space thread, but it doesn't
+ * return to ret_after_fork().
+ *
+ * In order to indicate that to tools like gdb,
+ * we reset the stack and instruction pointers.
+ *
+ * It does the same kernel frame setup to return to a kernel
+ * function that a kernel thread does.
+ */
+ childregs->sp = 0;
+ childregs->ip = 0;
+ kthread_frame_init(frame, sp, arg);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Set a new TLS for the child thread? */
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
ret = set_new_tls(p, tls);