On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Kernel threads should always return zero on success after calling >> do_execve(). The >> two existing cases in the kernel (kernel_init() and >> call_usermodehelper_exec_async()) >> correctly do this. Save a few bytes by storing EAX/RAX instead of an >> immediate zero. >> Also fix the 64-bit case which should save the full 64-bits. > > Does this have any additional motivation beyond cleanup and fixing an > inconsequential bug? I.e. does the rest of your series need this? > > --Andy
It's just a minor cleanup, not necessary. -- Brian Gerst
