On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Um, no. You've *already* called get_signal_to_deliver(). There had been > no SIGSEGV in sight. You happily went on to set a sigframe for e.g. > SIGHUP, but ran out of stack. At that point you get force_sigsegv() > from handle_signal(). _NOW_ you have a pending SIGSEGV Ahh. Ok. Different case from the one I thought you were worried about. And yeah, I guess that one does require us to mess with the low-level asm code (although I do wonder if we could not make the whole do_notify_resume + reschedule code be generic C code - it's a lot of duplicated subtle asm as it is). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html