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Message-ID: <20140217174648.GA6176@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:46:48 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
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 02/17, Al Viro wrote:
>
> 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,
Of course, this is only to explain what I meant.
> and to
> fix them you'll need to massage every get_signal()/get_signal_to_deliver()
> user out there,
Yes.
> pulling the logics *out* of kernel/signal.c and into arch/*.
Not really, I think. Of course this change should be cleanuped. And it
should not require to change all architectures at once.
> This is just plain wrong.
I agree, this change is also ugly.
Oleg.
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