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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-09-04 14:31:00 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-09-04 14:31:00 +0200
commit59f979455d7209171ab10a72c8df5c2512976cb4 (patch)
treec4c7fc48bd79bf8acbe848a1b979fa9e8ab4ac6a /arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
parentb9bb50db9126c4ccad78af2dfb77277ca17c9b64 (diff)
parent9450d57eab5cad36774c297da123062744472588 (diff)
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Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the current fixes branch, we are going to apply dependent patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index 153d3fce3e8e..d6fde98b74b3 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -455,3 +455,22 @@ 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);
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