Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled.

Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-17T17:46:55Z

On 02/17, Al Viro wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > Looks like, this is all is really nasty. Actually, I think siginfo on
> > stack is not that bad if we are going to do handle_signal() or restart,
> > perhaps we can do the extra kmalloc/memcpy/kfree for do_coredump().
> > Something like below.
>
> Yecchhhh... You've just broken every architecture other than x86,

Of course, this is only to explain what I meant.

> and to
> fix them you'll need to massage every get_signal()/get_signal_to_deliver()
> user out there,

Yes.

> pulling the logics *out* of kernel/signal.c and into arch/*.

Not really, I think. Of course this change should be cleanuped. And it
should not require to change all architectures at once.

> This is just plain wrong.

I agree, this change is also ugly.

Oleg.