Somehow I forgot about this problem. Let me resend the last version based on discussion with Linus. IIRC he was agree with this series.
And let me remind why 3/4 temporary adds the "transient" TS_COMPAT_RESTART flag killed by the next patch: to simplify the backporting. 1-3 can fix the problem without breaking the kABI. Oleg. --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 15 ++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 24 +----------------------- fs/select.c | 10 ++++------ include/linux/restart_block.h | 1 + include/linux/thread_info.h | 13 +++++++++++++ kernel/futex.c | 3 +-- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +- 10 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

