linux/arch/x86_64
Steven Rostedt 69be8f1896 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it.  I've written a
program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.

The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
NetBSD 2.0 *).

The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
handled is not blocked.

The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
the way most Unix boxes work.

Unix boxes that were tested:  DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.

* NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
Linux.  So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
behaves differently here with #2.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
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boot [PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups 2005-06-25 16:25:02 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] x86_64: add MODULE_ALIAS for aes 2005-08-08 15:29:13 -07:00
ia32 [PATCH] x86_64: fix 32-bit thread debugging 2005-08-04 16:28:27 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
lib [PATCH] x86_64: fix bug in csum_partial_copy_generic() 2005-07-30 10:14:47 -07:00
mm [PATCH] x86_64: Tell VM about holes in nodes 2005-08-26 19:37:12 -07:00
oprofile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
pci [PATCH] x86_64: Don't oops at boot when empty Opteron node has IO 2005-08-23 19:59:39 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] x86_64: update defconfig - reenable fusion 2005-08-24 10:22:44 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Improve CONFIG_GART_IOMMU description and make it default y 2005-07-28 21:45:59 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] x86_64: Remove IA32_* build tools in Makefile 2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00