Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:43:39 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.73] Fix broken signal optimization for i386 |
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On Thu, 3 July 2003 22:24:10 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > I guess it is an optimizasion that there is no flag to indicate > whether a process is operating on the signal stack or not. That > information is instead generated by checking whether the stack pointer > is inside the signal stack or not.
Ben Herrenschmidt agreed in principle with the patch and applied a Mighty Cluebat (tm) to my brain to use a flag instead of an int. After that treatment, the patch looks a bit better already.
Jörn
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