Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Replace the fake signal sending with TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL infrastructure

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 03:43:05 EST


On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Miroslav Benes wrote:

> Livepatch sends a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks of a
> running transition after a set period of time. It uses TIF_SIGPENDING
> flag for the purpose. Commit 12db8b690010 ("entry: Add support for
> TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL") added a generic infrastructure to achieve the same.
> Replace our bespoke solution with the generic one.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Pushed out to livepatching#for-5.13/signal.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs