Re: [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Apr 29 2012 - 14:09:26 EST


On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/27, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I'm somewhat tempted to do the following: *ALL* calls of
> > tracehook_signal_handler() are now immediately preceded by block_signals().
> > Moreover, tracehook_signal_handler(...., 0) is currently a no-op, so
> > it could be painlessly added after the remaining block_signals() instances.
> > How about *folding* block_signals() (along with clear_restore_sigmask())
> > into tracehook_signal_handler()?
>
> Oh, please no. Imho, these two have nothing to do with each other.
>
> Besides, at least on x86 tracehook_signal_handler's logic is not exactly
> right and should be fixed.

Details, please...

> And we are going to kill tracehook.h. While personally I do not think
> this is the good idea, but the matter of fact is that tracehooks are
> already destroyed.

See signal.git#master. I ended up with
signal_delivered(<tracehook_signal_handler arguments>)
and that sucker does both things. The funny thing is, block_sigmask()
(apologies for typo above) is not used anywhere else...
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