Re: [PATCH] TIF_NOTSC and SECCOMP prctl

[andrea]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:27:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Using a bit <= 15 will cause kernel to take the work_notifysig path
> "pending work-to-be-done flags are in LSW".  I'm not sure what happens if
> there's such a flag set but nothing is set up to handle it.  I guess it
> stays set and processes never get out of the kernel again.

Ah ok, thanks.

> Perhaps TIF_SECCOMP should be >= 16 too - the special-case in
> _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK looks odd.

It's checked with testw so it must be < 16.
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