Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled.

Linus Torvalds
2014-02-12T20:13:21Z

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> It looks like just "do_signal()" has a stack frame that is about 230
>> bytes even under normal circumstancs (largely due to "struct ksignal"
>> - which in turn is largely due to the insane 128-byte padding in
>> siginfo_t). Add a few other frames in there, and I guess that if it
>> was close before, the coredump path just makes it go off.
>
> We could, in principle, put it into task_struct and make get_signal()
> return its address - do_signal() is called only in the code that does
> assorted returns to userland...

We have better uses for random buffers in "struct task_struct", I'd
hate to put a siginfo_t there.

The thing is, siginfo_t has that idiotic 128-byte area, but it's all
"for future expansion". I think it's some damn glibc disease - we've
seen these kinds of insane paddings before.

The actual *useful* part of siginfo_t is on the order of 32 bytes. If that.

Sad.

Linus