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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: signal-race-fix.patch
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Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  >Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>  >  
>  >
>  >>I haven't seen anything for this, this is not in the current Linus or mm 
>  >>releases.  Did I miss something?
>  >>    
>  >>
>  >
>  >Andi had some legitimate gripes over it - the patch was a bit messy and
>  >could have some performance impact.  So I kinda forgot about it in the hope
>  >that a nicer solution would come along.
>  >  
>  >
>  Ok.  I searched and could not find Andi's email; do you have a pointer 
>  to it?

err, no.

I resurrected the patches - I'll send them out to remind people what they
do.  It affects all arches, and I only have x86, ia64, s390 and x86_64 in
hand.

It'll be a fair bit of work all round, so I'd ask people to take some time
out to think about this please.