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authorAlex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>2015-03-13 18:04:18 (GMT)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2015-03-31 05:50:51 (GMT)
commit18e1d1b115f79ab1f9137f2b4c72f87c218a5fb9 (patch)
tree3b5b4dda27602a4b51743ea450783c72f15bc8de /arch
parente42391cd048809d903291d07f86ed3934ce138e9 (diff)
downloadlinux-18e1d1b115f79ab1f9137f2b4c72f87c218a5fb9.tar.xz
arc: 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. Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/kernel/process.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
index 98c00a2..7a8ea6e 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ void arch_cpu_idle(void)
asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
-/* Layout of Child kernel mode stack as setup at the end of this function is
+/*
+ * Copy architecture-specific thread state
+ *
+ * Layout of Child kernel mode stack as setup at the end of this function is
*
* | ... |
* | ... |
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
* ------------------ <===== END of PAGE
*/
int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags,
- unsigned long usp, unsigned long arg,
+ unsigned long usp, unsigned long kthread_arg,
struct task_struct *p)
{
struct pt_regs *c_regs; /* child's pt_regs */
@@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
memset(c_regs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
- c_callee->r13 = arg; /* argument to kernel thread */
+ c_callee->r13 = kthread_arg;
c_callee->r14 = usp; /* function */
return 0;