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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:30:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007113049.GA3421@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091006175705.6547A22@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 10/06, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, we should add the comment to explain that both SI_FROMUSER()
> > and si_fromuser() are only valid in the sending pathes.
>
> Yes.  Also now that you put them both in a sentence together, it is clear
> that it is insane to have two different things with those two names that
> differ only in capitalization.

I think this doesn't matter because we need more cleanups. As for naming
I agree, si_fromuser() sucks and I'd be happy to send the patch which
renames it (or re-send these 2 patches).

The problem is, both SI_FROMUSER() and SI_FROMKERNEL() must die imho.
In fact I think they should never exist.

	SI_FROMUSER(siptr)      ((siptr)->si_code <= 0)

note "<=", this means this helper is unuseable. What we need is another
macro/inline which checks "si_code < 0" (or >= 0 depending on naming),
this helper should be used by sys_sigqueueinfo/etc which can not not use
SI_FROMXXX() because SI_USER is rightly forbidden. __send_signal() can
use the new helper too.

Other cleanups which imho makes sense:

	- rename SEND_SIG_XXX

	- redefine them to make sure SEND_SIG_NOINFO != NULL

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4AC608BE.9020805@fr.ibm.com>
2009-10-03 17:10 ` pidns : PR_SET_PDEATHSIG + SIGKILL regression Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-04  2:18   ` [PATCH 0/4] Was: " Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-04  2:19     ` [PATCH 1/4] signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER() Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-04  2:25       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 17:58       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-05 18:39         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-06  0:09       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-06  7:31       ` Roland McGrath
2009-10-06 13:37         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-06 17:57           ` Roland McGrath
2009-10-07 11:30             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-10-08  1:57               ` Roland McGrath
2009-10-04  2:19     ` [PATCH 2/4] signals: send_signal: use si_fromuser() to detect from_ancestor_ns Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 18:12       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-05 18:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 19:37           ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-05 19:44             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 19:55               ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-06  0:06               ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-06  1:09                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-06  2:34                   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-06 13:18                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-06 18:01                       ` Roland McGrath
2009-10-06  0:16       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-04  2:20     ` [PATCH 3/4] signals: cosmetic, collect_signal: use SI_USER Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 18:03       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-04  2:20     ` [PATCH 4/4] signals: kill force_sig_specific() Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-05 18:04       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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