On 10/16/20 8:51 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 10/16, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >> With moving the handling into get_signal() you don't need more changes >> to arch/* than adding the TIF bit, right? > > we still need to do something like > > - if (thread_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING) > + if (thread_flags & (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) > do_signal(...); > > and add _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL to the WORK-PENDING mask in arch/* code.
Yes, but it becomes really minimal at that point, and just that. There's no touching any of the arch do_signal() code. Just finished the update of the branch to this model, and it does simplify things quite a bit! Most arch patches are now exactly just what you write above, no more. -- Jens Axboe
