linux-kernel - Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:08:54 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled.

On 02/14, Al Viro wrote:
>
> BTW, Oleg, could you explain why does PTRACE_PEEK_SIGINFO copy ->si_code
> separately?  IOW, why do we want the upper 16 bits of ->si_code exposed?
> It used to be a strictly internal thing IIRC (it's been what, 2.3.late?)

Yes, but checkpoint/restart tools want to dump/restore the internal part
of ->si_code too.

See also the "task_pid_vnr(current) == pid" hack in do_rt_sigqueueinfo(),
this allows to queue a SI_FROMKERNEL() siginfo.

Oleg.

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