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Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:35:38 +0100 From: Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@...uge.net> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Signal scalability series On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:30 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. You and me both. Unfortunately, the ia64 guys had a different opinion, http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ia64/msg08363.html -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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