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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/process.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/tile/kernel/process.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c index 42ff73d5f637..221f12bd27fa 100644 --- a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c @@ -214,9 +214,10 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, /* * Copy the callee-saved registers from the passed pt_regs struct * into the context-switch callee-saved registers area. - * We have to restore the callee-saved registers since we may - * be cloning a userspace task with userspace register state, - * and we won't be unwinding the same kernel frames to restore them. + * This way when we start the interrupt-return sequence, the + * callee-save registers will be correctly in registers, which + * is how we assume the compiler leaves them as we start doing + * the normal return-from-interrupt path after calling C code. * Zero out the C ABI save area to mark the top of the stack. */ ksp = (unsigned long) childregs; |