linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Signal scalability series

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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:30:49 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Signal scalability series

Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> writes:
>
> And just like last time, these patches break ia64 because it
> implements rt_sigprocmask() in assembly. I'll work on the ia64 stuff
> while these patches are being reviewed.

Since we don't want to tie everyone changing signals in the future to
learning IA64 assembler, maybe the best approach would be simply to
change that function to just use the syscall. It can't be that
performance critical and everyone else has it as a syscall too.

I think that would be the best solution for long term maintainability.

-Andi

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