Re: Change to allow signal handlers to set SE and BE bits.

What if you went back to using the original syscall numbers?  Those seem
to have code in gdb to support them.

-Corey

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:19, Corey Minyard wrote:

quoted

Paul came up with a much better method for this.  I have added a syscall
that does a "debug" return from the signal handler.  It's much cleaner.

I ahve a patch for this, and I've done a number of things besides just
this.  I seemed bad to me to add yet another kludge to the beginning of
DoSyscall for handling yet another signal return value.  So I turned all
the signal return syscalls into normal syscalls.  This should speed up
normal syscall handling by removing four instructions from the syscall
entry.  Is this ok?

The problem with changing the signal return is that you break at least
gdb, and maybe more (g++ stack unwinding ?)

Ben.

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