Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:51:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals |
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > But if you really want that behaviour, then re-introducing the loop would > > likely be the better approach (or should be combined), since I think you > > effectively just re-introduced it (at a much bigger granularity). > > I don't think so. Firstly, TIF_SIGPENDING is not the only flag in > question. There are other reasons to re-enter do_notify_resume(). > If those are set during signal processing et al, they should take > effect before going back to user mode.
You're ignoring the background question - we expressly _stopped_ doing this long ago. So the real issue was the ".. if you really .." part.
Do we really? What's the actual downside here?
Linus
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