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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 25/40] parisc: Use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
    On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:40:58AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
    > From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
    >
    > As described in e6fa16ab ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
    > retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
    > incorrect as we need to check whether the signal we're about to block
    > is pending in the shared queue.
    >
    > Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f28f
    > ("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
    > which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
    > successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate
    > code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this
    > code wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from
    > happening again.
    >
    > Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    > Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
    > Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    > Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
    > Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
    > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

    Nice cleanups Matt!

    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>


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