The patch titled
signals: document CLD_CONTINUED notification mechanics
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
signals-document-cld_continued-notification-mechanics.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: signals: document CLD_CONTINUED notification mechanics
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
A couple of small comments about how CLD_CONTINUED notification works.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signals-document-cld_continued-notification-mechanics kernel/signal.c
--- a/kernel/signal.c~signals-document-cld_continued-notification-mechanics
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -633,6 +633,11 @@ static int prepare_signal(int sig, struc
why |= SIGNAL_CLD_STOPPED;
if (why) {
+ /*
+ * The first thread which returns from finish_stop()
+ * will take ->siglock, notice SIGNAL_CLD_MASK, and
+ * notify its parent. See get_signal_to_deliver().
+ */
signal->flags = why | SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED;
signal->group_stop_count = 0;
signal->group_exit_code = 0;
@@ -1694,7 +1699,11 @@ relock:
try_to_freeze();
spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
-
+ /*
+ * Every stopped thread goes here after wakeup. Check to see if
+ * we should notify the parent, prepare_signal(SIGCONT) encodes
+ * the CLD_ si_code into SIGNAL_CLD_MASK bits.
+ */
if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_CLD_MASK)) {
int why = (signal->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED)
? CLD_CONTINUED : CLD_STOPPED;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
posix-timers-bug-10460-discard-the-pending-signal-when-the-timer-is-destroyed.patch
workqueue-remove-redundant-function-invocation.patch
put_pid-make-sure-we-dont-free-the-live-pid.patch
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