Re: [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe related code

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Aug 30 2021 - 14:51:41 EST


On Mon, Aug 30 2021 at 10:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 9:27 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The following series cleans this up. As a side effect the resulting text
>> size of fpu/signal.o shrinks by about 150 bytes.
>
> Well, some of the patches in the middle were confusing because of how
> 0/ERROR was mixing with a success true/false thing, but the end result
> seems to be a whole lot more sensible.

Yes, I know. I tried various approaches but they mostly ended up being
unreviewable because they changed too many things at once.

So at the end I went for this step wise approach which seemed to be
manageable at least for my restricted brain capacity.

Thanks,

tglx