Re: [PATCH 1/6] signal x86: Propage RF EFLAGS bit throught the signal restore call

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 07:41:06PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Adding RF EFLAGS bit to be restored on return from signal from
> the original register context before the signal was entered.
> 
> This will prevent the RF flag to disappear when returning
> from exception due to the signal handler being executed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c        | 2 --
>  arch/x86/include/asm/sighandling.h | 4 ++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/signal.c           | 6 ------
>  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> index cf1a471..bccfca6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> @@ -34,8 +34,6 @@
>  #include <asm/sys_ia32.h>
>  #include <asm/smap.h>
>  
> -#define FIX_EFLAGS	__FIX_EFLAGS
> -
>  int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
>  {
>  	int err = 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sighandling.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sighandling.h
> index beff97f..7a95816 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sighandling.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sighandling.h
> @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/processor-flags.h>
>  
> -#define __FIX_EFLAGS	(X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_OF | \
> +#define FIX_EFLAGS	(X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_OF | \
>  			 X86_EFLAGS_DF | X86_EFLAGS_TF | X86_EFLAGS_SF | \
>  			 X86_EFLAGS_ZF | X86_EFLAGS_AF | X86_EFLAGS_PF | \
> -			 X86_EFLAGS_CF)
> +			 X86_EFLAGS_CF | X86_EFLAGS_RF)
>  
>  void signal_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, void __user *frame, char *where);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
> index 6956299..9df4c0b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -43,12 +43,6 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/sigframe.h>
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> -# define FIX_EFLAGS	(__FIX_EFLAGS | X86_EFLAGS_RF)

Does anybody know why we had RF not restored in x86-32?