linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF

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Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:35:19 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING

Roland, Linus, I'm sorry for being offtopic, but there is something
I can't understand from the very beginning, when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
was introduced.

On 03/28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >
> > Set TIF_SIGPENDING in set_restore_sigmask.  This lets arch code take
> > TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK out of the set of bits that will be noticed on
> > return to user mode.  On some machines those bits are scarce, and we
> > can free this unneeded one up for other uses.
> 
> Hmm. That probably means that TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK shouldn't be a "TIF" 
> flag at all,

Yes!

> but a "TS" ("thread status") flag.

Why do we need any flag? It looks a bit ugly. Isn't it better to introduce
the new magic ERESTART_XXX which means ERESTARTNOHAND + restore-sigmask ?

We only need this flag as an implicit parameter to the arch dependent do_signal()
which we can't call directly, and thus it must imply TIF_SIGPENDING, and it
is not valid after do_signal() (should be cleared). This all looks like
ERESTART_ magic, why should we add something else ?

See also http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113734458516136

Of course, probably it is too late to change the implementation even if
I am right, the question is: what I am missed?

Oleg.

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