Re: waitid() fails with EINVAL for SA_RESTART signals

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Other machines are subject to the same risk and should have a
> > prevent_tail_call definition too.  The asm-i386/linkage.h version probably
> > works fine for every machine.  It might as well be generic, I'd say.
> 
> Sparc, for one, doesn't need it.  We pass the pt_regs in via a pointer
> to the trap level stack frame which won't be released by a tail-call
> in C code.

x86 has largely tried to move in that direction too, ie a lot of the 
asm-calls have been turned into FASTCALL() with %eax pointing to the 
stack.

Roland, I applied the patch, but if there was some particular case that 
triggered this, maybe it's worth trying to re-write that one.

		Linus
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