Kumar Gala wrote:
copying the flags isn't the issue. Its acting on the flags thats the
problem. I'm not 100% sure the C code that might clear the flags is
consistent on how it access them.
Actually *delivering* the signal should never be done except when
returning to user. That's different from sending the signal, though.
BTW, it doesn't seem all that unreasonable for a kernel
profiling/tracing exception to signal a process that, for example, an
event buffer is over a certain threshold.
> So if one bit of code clears
> task_struct->stack->thread_info->flags and other clears
> thread_info(STACK)->flags we get into an issue on how to merge after
> that.
It appears that TIF_SIGPENDING is always accessed through the task
struct, though not so for TIF_NEED_RESCHED.
-Scott
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