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Date:   Sat, 1 May 2021 02:37:22 +0200
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] signal: Move si_trapno into the _si_fault union

On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 01:48, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> Well with 7 patches instead of 3 that was a little more than I thought
> I was going to send.
>
> However that does demonstrate what I am thinking, and I think most of
> the changes are reasonable at this point.
>
> I am very curious how synchronous this all is, because if this code
> is truly synchronous updating signalfd to handle this class of signal
> doesn't really make sense.
>
> If the code is not synchronous using force_sig is questionable.
>
> Eric W. Biederman (7):
>       siginfo: Move si_trapno inside the union inside _si_fault
>       signal: Implement SIL_FAULT_TRAPNO
>       signal: Use dedicated helpers to send signals with si_trapno set
>       signal: Remove __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
>       signal: Rename SIL_PERF_EVENT SIL_FAULT_PERF_EVENT for consistency
>       signal: Factor force_sig_perf out of perf_sigtrap
>       signal: Deliver all of the perf_data in si_perf

Thank you for doing this so quickly -- it looks much cleaner. I'll
have a more detailed look next week and also run some tests myself.

At a first glance, you've broken our tests in
tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/ -- needs a
s/si_perf/si_perf.data/, s/si_errno/si_perf.type/

Thanks!

-- Marco

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