Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:24:53 +0200 | From | Helge Deller <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] parisc architecture patch for v3.18 |
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On 10/13/2014 03:41 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:08:37 +0200 > Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Hi Linus, >> >> please pull one patch for the parisc architecture for kernel 3.18 from >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git parisc-3.18-1 >> >> This patch intentionally breaks the ABI on PARISC Linux! >> >> It assigns new numbers to SIGSTKFLT, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ and SIGSYS so that >> those are below 32 and thus leaves us with 32 RT signals like other >> Linux architectures (SIGRTMIN now becomes 32 instead of 37). >> >> Even if it breaks the ABI, it doesn't seem to have any visible impact on >> existing userspace applications. > > I somehow doubt your kill command magically corrects its signal numbering > table. Likewise what does gdb do given a core dump that died from one of > those signals, and what does your shell report if you kill one that way. > It seems to me your minimal set of binaries to swap to get it right is > non-zero but not problematic (libc, kill, shells, top, gdb) ?
My patch of course just marks the start of a transition phase, in which some few applications need to be rebuilt (libc as the most important one). But after all it makes a somewhat smooth transition possible, and as I wrote in the commit message this is the best solution (out of 3) with the least impact which we have.
> I can however really only think of one app that actually *used* SIGXCPU, > and that was to respawn itself to avoid annoying sysadmin set CPU limits > anyway.
:-)
Helge
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