Re: Question about signal syscalls !

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On 2/5/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not saving the s-registers into the signal frame would be a neat
optimization.  It wouldn't only make things a little faster it would

Actually it seems to me that setup_sigcontext() is almost completly
useless if the signal handler is dealt when returning from a system
call since just a very few registers are saved in the 'struct pt_regs'
structure. So setup_sigcontext() ends up saving a lot of random
values.
--
              Franck


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