Re: [RFC PATCH v2 -tip 0/4] x86: signal handler improvement

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 14:15:43 EST


Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:

and errors in __put_user is stored to stack.
At the end of function, all errors in stack are calculated. If access to user
space is failed, %edx is set to -EFAULT in exception handler and stored to
stack for later operation.
It seems inefficient.


This is a gcc failure, and should be reported to the gcc people.

-hpa
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