From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: signalfd API issues (was Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:59:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607135928.GD5613@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181186963.14818.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:29:23PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> But you use ptrace and don't steal signals with dequeue_signal() on a
> live other task, which is ok.
True. However, with an SMP UML running a threaded app (which is also
threads on the host), if the thread on one CPU gets a signal which
will be nullified (SIGTRAP, SIG*ALRM, later SIGSEGV) and the other
thread continues running, does that count as stealing a signal from
another live task?
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 1:25 [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-05 2:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 2:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 3:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 6:09 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-05 7:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 23:51 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 0:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 0:15 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 0:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 0:58 ` signalfd API issues (was Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes) Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 2:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 3:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-06 4:08 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 4:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 4:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 6:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 22:36 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 3:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 12:52 ` Jeff Dike
2007-06-06 22:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-07 2:20 ` Jeff Dike
2007-06-07 3:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-07 13:59 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2007-06-07 3:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 15:52 ` [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 22:50 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 22:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 0:11 ` Davide Libenzi
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