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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-09-05 07:17:31 (GMT)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-09-05 07:17:31 (GMT)
commit14e42917216ab0859827c2d8024df45a917301b4 (patch)
treeefbea5d1c54387d62a6fd66a21560232cf312fda /arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
parent292f2b6254c9dbb98def6d3521b07a837545ead0 (diff)
parent4266274836e81575ee82498d84f4bd08ab7a7378 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-14e42917216ab0859827c2d8024df45a917301b4.tar.xz
Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel into for-next
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index 153d3fc..d6fde98 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);