Re: [RFC PATCH -tip 0/4] x86: signal handler improvement

From: Hiroshi Shimamoto
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 13:01:12 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> could we perhaps first finish unifying them into signal.c, and then
>> introduce __put_user_cerr() in signal_32/64.c?
>
> i've got an API suggestion as well. Instead of:
>
> - err |= __put_user(UC_FP_XSTATE, &frame->uc.uc_flags);
> + __put_user_cerr(UC_FP_XSTATE, &frame->uc.uc_flags, err);
>
> could you instead please make it:
>
> + __put_user_cerr(UC_FP_XSTATE, &frame->uc.uc_flags, &err);
>
> i.e. pass in 'err' as a reference. This makes it clear to the casual
> reader, in a C calling convention sense, that there's a side-effect to
> 'err'. [ There should be no change to the resulting code as
> __put_user_cerr() is a macro. ]

make sense!
Will do in next post.

thanks,
Hiroshi Shimamoto


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