On 10/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Hmm. I know nothing about arch/alpha and I can't understand its entry.S.
> But _it seems_ to me that do_notify_resume() is called with irqs disabled.
> If this is true, then imho arch/alpha should be fixed.
>
> Before this commit task_work_run() enabled irqs, but this was the "side
> effect" of spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq, we should not rely on this.
Could you please test the debugging patch below?
Oleg.
--- x/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
+++ x/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
@@ -567,11 +567,19 @@ do_signal(struct pt_regs * regs, struct
ptrace_set_bpt(current); /* re-set breakpoint */
}
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+
void
do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, struct switch_stack *sw,
unsigned long thread_info_flags,
unsigned long r0, unsigned long r19)
{
+ if (irqs_disabled()) {
+ printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
+ "NOTIFY with irqs_disabled:%lx\n", thread_info_flags);
+ local_irq_enable();
+ }
+
if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING)
do_signal(regs, sw, r0, r19);
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