linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such

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Message-ID: <20120423183734.GA1897@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:37:34 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such

On 04/23, Al Viro wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:21:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > > This is why I suggested you look at Oleg's patches. If we guarantee
> > > that things won't be delayed past re-entering user mode, all those
> > > issues go away.
> >
> > I've looked at them.  One obvious problem is that it tracehook_notify_resume()
> > is not universally called.  AFAICS, hexagon, m68k, microblaze, score, um
> > and xtensa never call tracehook_notify_resume().

Yes,

> > Out of those, hexagon is
> > manually checking TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and does key_replace_session_keyring(),
> > so the call could be easily added into the same place;

Yes, I sent the trivial patch.

> > the rest of those
> > guys don't even look at TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME anywhere near their signal*.c
> > and m68k/um/xtensa don't even have it defined, let alone handled.  So this
> > stuff depends on some amount of asm glue hacking on several architectures ;-/

which I don't understand even remotely :/ But I'll try to understand at
least something.

> Oleg, where does your tree live?

Cough. Nowhere. I still can't restore my korg account.

> I've walked through the signal handling
> on all targets over this weekend (and it's still not complete - there are
> fun bugs re multiple sigframes and restart handling on many of those) and
> my current queue is at git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal;

Thanks. I don't think you need my help, but I'll certainly try to look this
week anyway.

Oleg.

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