The 'stack_size' argument is never used to pass a stack size. It's only used 
when
forking a kernel thread, in which case it is an argument which should be passed
to the 'main' function which the kernel thread executes. Hence, rename it to
'kthread_arg'.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeij...@gmail.com>
---

Hi,

The following patches in this series perform a similar cleanup for the 
arch-specific
implementations of copy_thread(). Each patch has been sent to the maintainers 
for
the relevant arch.

Thanks, AD

 kernel/fork.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index cf65139..5a40dfd 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1186,10 +1186,12 @@ init_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type 
type, struct pid *pid)
  * It copies the registers, and all the appropriate
  * parts of the process environment (as per the clone
  * flags). The actual kick-off is left to the caller.
  */
 static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
                                        unsigned long stack_start,
-                                       unsigned long stack_size,
+                                       unsigned long kthread_arg,
                                        int __user *child_tidptr,
                                        struct pid *pid,
                                        int trace)
@@ -1401,7 +1403,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long 
clone_flags,
        retval = copy_io(clone_flags, p);
        if (retval)
                goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
-       retval = copy_thread(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p);
+       retval = copy_thread(clone_flags, stack_start, kthread_arg, p);
        if (retval)
                goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
 
@@ -1630,7 +1632,7 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
  */
 long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
              unsigned long stack_start,
-             unsigned long stack_size,
+             unsigned long kthread_arg,
              int __user *parent_tidptr,
              int __user *child_tidptr)
 {
@@ -1656,7 +1658,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
                        trace = 0;
        }
 
-       p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size,
+       p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, kthread_arg,
                         child_tidptr, NULL, trace);
        /*
         * Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
@@ -1740,7 +1742,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, newsp, unsigned 
long, clone_flags,
                 int, tls_val)
 #elif defined(CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE6(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
-               int, stack_size,
+               int, ignored,
                int __user *, parent_tidptr,
                int __user *, child_tidptr,
                int, tls_val)
-- 
2.0.0.GIT

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