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

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Message-ID: <20140217174059.GD18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:40:59 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	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 Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Looks like, this is all is really nasty. Actually, I think siginfo on
> stack is not that bad if we are going to do handle_signal() or restart,
> perhaps we can do the extra kmalloc/memcpy/kfree for do_coredump().
> Something like below.

Yecchhhh...  You've just broken every architecture other than x86, and to
fix them you'll need to massage every get_signal()/get_signal_to_deliver()
user out there, pulling the logics *out* of kernel/signal.c and into arch/*.
This is just plain wrong.
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