Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE

[Trond Myklebust]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:54 +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No need to make that one-liner function be a GPL-only export, it's not 
> like any of the other regular sigpending functions are we export are 
> GPL-only either (dequeue_signal() is, but that is because we *really* 
> don't want people using that, and it's really about internal signal 
> handling behavior).

No. It was more in the spirit of "let's not export a function that
others may implement trivially using established interfaces". However if
you don't care, then here's a replacement.

Cheers
  Trond
> --- Begin Message ---
> It may be used by the modules nfs.ko and sunrpc.ko
>
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  kernel/signal.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> index 8054dd4..4333b6d 100644
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -998,6 +998,7 @@ int fastcall __fatal_signal_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>  	return sigismember(&tsk->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fatal_signal_pending);
>  
>  /*
>   * Must be called under rcu_read_lock() or with tasklist_lock read-held.
>
> --- End Message ---