Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:56:09 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again) |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:07:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, george anzinger wrote: > > > > As a suggestion for a solution for this, is it true that > > regs, on a system call, will ALWAYS be at the end of the > > stack? > > No. Some architectures do not save enough state on the stack by default, > and need to do more to use do_signal(). Look at alpha, for example - the > default kernel stack doesn't contain all tbe registers needed, and > the alpha do_signal() calling convention is different. > > If you want to handle do_signal(), then you need to do _all_ of this in > architecture-specific files. You simply cannot do what you want to do in a > generic way.
I think you should be able to call do_signal or a wrapper in some platform-independent way. Is the necessary information recoverable in Alpha et al.? What do you think of adding a standard wrapper function so that system calls can process a signal if necessary?
Not only did George need this for POSIX conformance, I've seen a lot of complaints about GDB interrupting sys_nanosleep even on cancelled signals.
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