Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: switch osf_sigprocmask() to use ofsigprocmask()

From: Ivan Kokshaysky
Date: Thu Sep 30 2010 - 07:56:51 EST


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:39:01PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> It appears to be worse than that. It introduces a regression. On boot up
> on a Compaq Alpha XP1000 the system appears to freeze at the point of
> mounting swap. It eventually resumes after almost three minutes and
> continues to boot. A bisection returned this very commit as the first bad
> commit. With a kernel without this commit the (truncated) bootup log is:

Confirmed, I see some processes get stuck, apparently waiting for signals.

Looks like yet another typo - _BLOCKABLE is defined as
(~(sigmask(SIGKILL) | sigmask(SIGSTOP))), so (newmask & ~_BLOCKABLE)
clears everything but SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.

Ivan.

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
index d290845..6f7feb5 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_sigprocmask, int, how, unsigned long, newmask)
sigset_t mask;
unsigned long res;

- siginitset(&mask, newmask & ~_BLOCKABLE);
+ siginitset(&mask, newmask & _BLOCKABLE);
res = sigprocmask(how, &mask, &oldmask);
if (!res) {
force_successful_syscall_return();
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