On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Philip Guenther wrote:
> Thinking about this more, I believe these savectx() calls date from when 
> cpu_fork() worked completely differently, with the child actually 
> returning back through cpu_fork().  Now, the child's stack frame is 
> updated to make it start in proc_trampoline() when it's first switched 
> to, so the registers that savectx() saves (stack/frame pointers, maybe 
> callee-saved registers) are useless to the child.
> 
> On that theory, I'm going to test the mips64 part of this diff.  I don't 
> have arm or m88k to test; anyone?

loongson appears to be happy with this, completing a build and release, 
and Patrick says the arm version seems happy.  Any oks?


Philip

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