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alpha: take kernel_execve() out of entry.S

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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Al Viro
2012-08-19 14:41:00 +12:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent be53db6e4e
commit 28d353d989
3 changed files with 19 additions and 53 deletions
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arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
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@ -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);