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authorAlex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>2015-03-13 20:14:45 +0200
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>2015-04-24 13:45:55 +0200
commit5fec97d0e3d93717f1d6a958a03e579078088861 (patch)
tree7d47cc0f0db5f5bdff0d7a9f6f06f000cb588b70 /arch/parisc/kernel
parenta4e4f67f41d9bfcc2a00849a75712f09a7d43798 (diff)
downloadlinux-5fec97d0e3d93717f1d6a958a03e579078088861.tar.gz
parisc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'
The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and
consistency with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of
copy_thread()).

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/kernel/process.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
index 8a488c22a99f..809905a811ed 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -181,9 +181,12 @@ int dump_task_fpu (struct task_struct *tsk, elf_fpregset_t *r)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Copy architecture-specific thread state
+ */
 int
 copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
-	    unsigned long arg, struct task_struct *p)
+	    unsigned long kthread_arg, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	struct pt_regs *cregs = &(p->thread.regs);
 	void *stack = task_stack_page(p);
@@ -195,11 +198,10 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
 	extern void * const child_return;
 
 	if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
+		/* kernel thread */
 		memset(cregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
 		if (!usp) /* idle thread */
 			return 0;
-
-		/* kernel thread */
 		/* Must exit via ret_from_kernel_thread in order
 		 * to call schedule_tail()
 		 */
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
 #else
 		cregs->gr[26] = usp;
 #endif
-		cregs->gr[25] = arg;
+		cregs->gr[25] = kthread_arg;
 	} else {
 		/* user thread */
 		/* usp must be word aligned.  This also prevents users from