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From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	jdike@ccure.user-mode-linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/11] - UML - fix signal mask on delivery error
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:40:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AEFF3E.1060605@fujitsu-siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16814.64421.960433.460117@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Bodo Stroesser writes:
> 
> 
>>If a SIGSEGV is forced since the stackframe/sigcontext for a signal-handler
>>could not be created, this SIGSEGV is queued only. To deliver it, do_signal()
>>must be called again, which normally won't happen (with the exception of
>>sys_sigretrun/sys_rt_sigreturn). Thus, SIGSEGV stays in the queue until the
> 
> 
> We got this right on ppc/ppc64, I believe.  After calling do_signal,
> we loop around again (in the exception exit path in entry.S) and check
> the signal pending and reschedule bits again (in the thread_info
> flags).  We only exit to usermode when they are both zero.
> 
> Paul.
Aha! Sorry, didn't recognize that loop.

Bodo

      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200411130201.iAD210pT005889@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
2004-11-13  0:34 ` [PATCH 9/11] - UML - fix signal mask on delivery error Andrew Morton
2004-11-14 22:13   ` Jeff Dike
2004-11-15  8:35     ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-22 15:30       ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-15 11:40     ` Bodo Stroesser
2004-11-15 17:18       ` Jeff Dike
2004-11-16  9:39         ` Bodo Stroesser
2004-11-30 14:59     ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-02  9:55       ` Bodo Stroesser
2004-12-02 11:25         ` Paul Mackerras
2004-12-02 11:40           ` Bodo Stroesser [this message]

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