On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:32:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We'd have to teach each user of "dequeue_signal()" to free the siginfo > thing. Which shouldn't be too bad - I think we've collected all of > that into generic code, and there isn't the mass or architecture code > that knows about these things any more. But there are a few odd > drivers etc and signalfd. The few odd drivers are nbd, jffs2 and the usb mass storage gadget. All of these have in common that they try to handle signals in a kernel thread (which we don't even allow by default), and that they ignore the siginfo. I think they could mostly be replaced by an addition to the kthread API to allow a kthread to be killed by signals for legacy reasons. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
