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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-08-27 16:22:20 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-08-27 16:22:20 +1000
commit93bb70e0c00f1be4cc857e4d8375c44058cce71e (patch)
tree7b6a11844e00b3f4bf8281c7a799e61494220819 /arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
parent6f314ebbaa2667d67a7206ba78f28e46cf47eda5 (diff)
parentc182ae42cc3611f7b3fa803c0bcab6e5d29bea63 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into drm-next
There was some merge conflicts in -next and they weren't so pretty, so backmerge now to avoid them. Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_modes.c
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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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