From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:30685 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266237AbUG0Dkz (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:40:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4105CEC5.2030308@acm.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:40:53 -0500 From: Corey Minyard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: signal-race-fix.patch References: <20040319120151.380dcbc9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040319141258.338c91b1.davem@redhat.com> <405B773B.8010705@acm.org> <20040319154928.3b2d8820.davem@redhat.com> <405B8BE5.4070602@acm.org> <20040323022020.3972af1d.akpm@osdl.org> <410574E6.2040309@acm.org> <20040726142224.79018464.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040726142224.79018464.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: >Corey Minyard 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? I'll fix the problems. I looked at it, though, and the only possible performance hit I could find was that it copies the sa_handler data structure. That's going to be hard to avoid. And there was that big nasty line with too many "->" and "." setting sa_handler to SIG_DFL... Thanks, -Corey