On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >Proposed patch appended. Jan, what do you think?
> >>
> >> As said above - I thought we added zero-termination already.
> >
> >For head.S but not for kernel_thread I think. At least I can't
> >find any existing code for kernel_thread().
>
> 2.6.18-git11 (i386) already has an annotated version of
> kernel_thread_helper() in entry.S, including the pushing of a
> fake (zero) return address. x86-64 has child_rip with the
> added push even in original 2.6.18.
True.
I wonder why it didn't work then and why my patch fixed the crash.
Ok the pushl is outside the CFI_STARTPROC
ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper)
pushl $0 # fake return address for unwinder
CFI_STARTPROC
..
-Andi
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