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Commit acef2e55 authored by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso's avatar Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] uml: commentary about forking flag


Add some commentary about UML internals, for a strange trick.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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......@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ struct task_struct;
struct mm_struct;
struct thread_struct {
/* This flag is set to 1 before calling do_fork (and analyzed in
* copy_thread) to mark that we are begin called from userspace (fork /
* vfork / clone), and reset to 0 after. It is left to 0 when called
* from kernelspace (i.e. kernel_thread() or fork_idle(), as of 2.6.11). */
int forking;
int nsyscalls;
struct pt_regs regs;
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