[PATCH v5 18/32] signal: Consolidate {TS, TLF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code

Brian Gerst brgerst at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 21:57:31 AEST 2016


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org> wrote:
> In general, there's no need for the "restore sigmask" flag to live in
> ti->flags.  alpha, ia64, microblaze, powerpc, sh, sparc (64-bit only),
> tile, and x86 use essentially identical alternative implementations,
> placing the flag in ti->status.
>
> Replace those optimized implementations with an equally good common
> implementation that stores it in a bitfield in struct task_struct
> and drop the custom implementations.
>
> Additional architectures can opt in by removing their
> TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK defines.

There is a small typo in the subject, should be "signal: Consolidate
{TS,TIF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code"

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Brian Gerst


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