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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:57:31 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 18/32] signal: Consolidate {TS,TLF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> In general, there's no need for the "restore sigmask" flag to live in
> ti->flags.  alpha, ia64, microblaze, powerpc, sh, sparc (64-bit only),
> tile, and x86 use essentially identical alternative implementations,
> placing the flag in ti->status.
>
> Replace those optimized implementations with an equally good common
> implementation that stores it in a bitfield in struct task_struct
> and drop the custom implementations.
>
> Additional architectures can opt in by removing their
> TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK defines.

There is a small typo in the subject, should be "signal: Consolidate
{TS,TIF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code"

--
Brian Gerst

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