From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:09:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120429180926.GA6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120429164155.GC15792@redhat.com>
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/27, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I'm somewhat tempted to do the following: *ALL* calls of
> > tracehook_signal_handler() are now immediately preceded by block_signals().
> > Moreover, tracehook_signal_handler(...., 0) is currently a no-op, so
> > it could be painlessly added after the remaining block_signals() instances.
> > How about *folding* block_signals() (along with clear_restore_sigmask())
> > into tracehook_signal_handler()?
>
> Oh, please no. Imho, these two have nothing to do with each other.
>
> Besides, at least on x86 tracehook_signal_handler's logic is not exactly
> right and should be fixed.
Details, please...
> And we are going to kill tracehook.h. While personally I do not think
> this is the good idea, but the matter of fact is that tracehooks are
> already destroyed.
See signal.git#master. I ended up with
signal_delivered(<tracehook_signal_handler arguments>)
and that sucker does both things. The funny thing is, block_sigmask()
(apologies for typo above) is not used anywhere else...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-29 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-18 13:04 [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches Mimi Zohar
2012-04-18 15:02 ` James Morris
2012-04-18 18:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-04-18 18:39 ` Al Viro
2012-04-18 20:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-04-19 19:57 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-04-20 0:43 ` [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches) Al Viro
2012-04-20 2:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 2:54 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 8:09 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 16:08 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 16:42 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 18:07 ` Al Viro
2012-04-23 18:01 ` [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such Al Viro
2012-04-23 18:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-24 7:26 ` Al Viro
2012-04-25 3:06 ` Al Viro
2012-04-25 12:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 12:50 ` Al Viro
2012-04-25 13:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 13:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 13:32 ` Al Viro
2012-04-25 14:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 15:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 16:10 ` Al Viro
2012-04-25 17:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 17:51 ` Al Viro
2012-04-26 7:15 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-04-26 7:25 ` David Miller
2012-04-26 13:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-26 14:31 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-04-26 13:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-26 18:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-26 23:19 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 17:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-27 17:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-05-02 10:37 ` Matt Fleming
2012-05-02 14:14 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 18:45 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 19:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-27 19:34 ` Al Viro
2012-04-29 22:51 ` Al Viro
2012-04-30 6:39 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-04-27 19:42 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 20:20 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-27 21:12 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 21:27 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-27 23:15 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 23:32 ` Al Viro
2012-04-29 4:12 ` Al Viro
2012-04-30 8:06 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-04-27 23:50 ` Al Viro
2012-04-28 18:51 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: avoid calling do_signal() after fork from a kernel thread Chris Metcalf
2012-04-28 20:55 ` Al Viro
2012-04-28 21:46 ` Chris Metcalf
2012-04-29 0:55 ` Al Viro
2012-04-28 18:51 ` [PATCH v2] arch/tile: fix up some issues in calling do_work_pending() Chris Metcalf
2012-04-29 3:49 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: avoid calling do_signal() after fork from a kernel thread Chris Metcalf
2012-04-28 2:42 ` [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such Al Viro
2012-04-28 3:32 ` Al Viro
2012-04-28 3:36 ` Al Viro
2012-04-29 16:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-29 16:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-29 18:05 ` Al Viro
2012-05-01 4:31 ` Al Viro
2012-05-01 5:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-01 5:52 ` Al Viro
2012-05-02 17:24 ` Al Viro
2012-05-02 18:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-29 16:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-29 18:09 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-04-29 18:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-20 3:15 ` [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches) Al Viro
2012-04-20 18:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-20 19:04 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 19:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-20 19:58 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 22:13 ` Al Viro
2012-04-20 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 7:35 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-04-27 17:34 ` Al Viro
2012-04-27 18:52 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-04-27 19:15 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-04-30 14:32 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-05-03 4:23 ` James Morris
2012-04-20 19:37 ` Al Viro
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