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

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:52:39 +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,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, arch/*/*/*signal*.c and all such

On 04/25, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Point...  Still, since we are talking about an arbitrary wide window (the
> damn thing is waiting for signals to arrive, after all) this doesn't
> sound good;
> ...
> IMO it's
> a QoI problem at the very least.

and looks confusing, agreed.

> As for SA_RESTART/!SA_RESTART mixes, if SA_RESTART comes first we should
> just take that restart and pretend that the second signal has arrived at
> the very beginning of handler, I think.

Yes. My point was, this confuses the user-space developers too. And this
case is equally unclear to me wrt should we (at least try to) change this
or not.

Oleg.

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