Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] x86: signal: handle_signal() should useset_current_blocked()

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:46:15PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> This is ugly, but if sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending() then
> handle signal should follow this logic. In theory it is newer correct to
							  never?

> add the new signals to current->blocked, the signal handler can sleep/etc
> so we should notify other threads in case we block the pending signal and
> nobody else has TIF_SIGPENDING.
> 
> Of course, this change doesn't make signals faster :/

I don't think it's gonna make things go much slower either except for
pathological cases.

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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