Re: is TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME used?

Andrew Morton
2007-05-22T16:02:10Z

On Tue, 22 May 2007 05:47:13 -0700
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For perfmon, we need a couple of TIF bits. It seems that with 2.6.22-rc2
> there is now a TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK which uses the last remaining bit in the
> first 7 bits of the thread flag. Many architectures, including IA-64, rely
> on the fact that some of the TIF flags (TIF_ALL_WORKMASK or TIF_ALL_WORK)
> tested on kernel exit reside in the low 8-bit or 7-bit because they use
> instructions (such as add r1=imm8,r2 on IA-64) which operate on 8 or 7 bit
> immediate.
>
> On IA-64, adding that one perfmon flag (as bit 7) would cause some
> restructuring in the kernel exit path but also in all the lightweight syscall
> handlers.
>
> I looked at all the low order TIF flags and found that TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
> was never set nor used anywhere in any architecture. Is that really the case?
>
> If so, we could get rid of it and free up one low-order TIF bit.
>

My grepping argees with yours. The only place where TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME gets
altered is in ./arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c.