From db7d9a4eb700be766cc9f29241483dbb1e748832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:36:26 -0700 Subject: [SPARC64]: Move syscall success and newchild state out of thread flags. These two bits were accesses non-atomically from assembler code. So, in order to eliminate any potential races resulting from that, move these pieces of state into two bytes elsewhere in struct thread_info. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c') diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c index 7e8e2919e18..b9b42491e11 100644 --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void __init smp_callin(void) /* Clear this or we will die instantly when we * schedule back to this idler... */ - clear_thread_flag(TIF_NEWCHILD); + current_thread_info()->new_child = 0; /* Attach to the address space of init_task. */ atomic_inc(&init_mm.mm_count); -- cgit v1.2.3