Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2012-12-24

Re: [PATCH 2/4] signal: add a helper for dequeuing signals from a specified queue

From: Michael Kerrisk <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-24 20:52:22
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

[CC+=linux-api]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Andrey Vagin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk
Cc: Ingo Molnar <redacted>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <redacted>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted>
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <redacted>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |  9 ++++++++-
 kernel/signal.c       | 13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0dd42a0..de9a4bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2159,7 +2159,14 @@ extern void flush_signals(struct task_struct *);
 extern void __flush_signals(struct task_struct *);
 extern void ignore_signals(struct task_struct *);
 extern void flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct *, int force_default);
-extern int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info);
+extern int do_dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk,
+                               sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info, int queue);
+
+static inline int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk,
+                                       sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
+{
+       return do_dequeue_signal(tsk, mask, info, 0);
+}

 static inline int dequeue_signal_lock(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 0af8868..91bb76f2 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -597,17 +597,22 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask,
  * Dequeue a signal and return the element to the caller, which is
  * expected to free it.
  *
+ * @queue: dequeue from a private queue, if a value is not positive
if a value is not positive ==> if value is nonpositive
+ *        dequeue from a shared queue, if a value if not negative
if a value is not negative ==> if value is nonnegative

Thanks,

Michael



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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/
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