linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 12/17] signal: make unhandled

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Message-ID: <20180602120238.GA11282@avx2>
Date:   Sat, 2 Jun 2018 15:02:38 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/17] signal: make unhandled_signal() return bool

> -int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
> +bool unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)

This most likely makes code generation worse on embedded arhcs
which will '& 0xFF" internally.