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    Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux · 9ba27414
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
     "This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
      creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
      {kernel_}clone_args.
    
      High-level this does two main things:
    
       - Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
         do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.
    
         Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
         kernel_clone_args.
    
       - Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
         architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.
    
      This switches all remaining architectures to select
      HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
      convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
      more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
      copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
      has a copy_thread_tls() function.
    
      The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
      CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
      HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
      and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
      process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
      on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
      convention.
    
      After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
      series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
      switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
      _do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
      is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
      it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
      supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
      argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
      function to exist.).
    
      The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
      remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
      in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
      we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
      probably well-known - somewhat odd:
    
        #
        # ABI hall of shame
        #
        config CLONE_BACKWARDS
        config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
        config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
    
      that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
      follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
      the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.
    
      So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
      first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
      deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
      enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
      architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
      conventions...)
    
      Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
      mind).
    
      Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
      of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
      either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.
    
      Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
      actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
      Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
      touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
      acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
      buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
      but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
      people yell if I broke something there.
    
      All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
      been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
      -x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
      even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
      HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
      basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
      hands on a useable image"
    
    * tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
      arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
      arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
      unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
      fork: remove do_fork()
      h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
      nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
      ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
      sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
      sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
      sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
      fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()
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