linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Will Deacon 433e2f307b ARM: 7443/1: Revert "new way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK"
This reverts commit 6b5c8045ec.

Conflicts:

	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c

The new syscall restarting code can lead to problems if we take an
interrupt in userspace just before restarting the svc instruction. If
a signal is delivered when returning from the interrupt, the
TIF_SYSCALL_RESTARTSYS will remain set and cause any syscalls executed
from the signal handler to be treated as a restart of the previously
interrupted system call. This includes the final sigreturn call, meaning
that we may fail to exit from the signal context. Furthermore, if a
system call made from the signal handler requires a restart via the
restart_block, it is possible to clear the thread flag and fail to
restart the originally interrupted system call.

The right solution to this problem is to perform the restarting in the
kernel, avoiding the possibility of handling a further signal before the
restart is complete. Since we're almost at -rc6, let's revert the new
method for now and aim for in-kernel restarting at a later date.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-05 09:50:56 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
arm ARM: 7443/1: Revert "new way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK" 2012-07-05 09:50:56 +01:00
avr32 fixups for signal breakage 2012-06-04 17:47:34 -04:00
blackfin Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-05 09:47:15 -07:00
c6x new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
frv frv: Remove bogus closing parenthesis 2012-06-02 10:38:19 -04:00
h8300 h8300: use the declarations provided by <asm/sections.h> 2012-06-20 14:39:35 -07:00
hexagon new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
ia64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
m68k m68knommu: define a local devm_clk_get() function 2012-06-25 09:17:20 +10:00
microblaze new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
mips - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2 2012-06-01 16:55:42 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
openrisc new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
parisc [PARISC] fix code to find libgcc 2012-06-05 14:10:23 +09:00
powerpc powerpc/kvm: sldi should be sld 2012-07-02 14:30:12 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
score new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
sh Merge branches 'sh/urgent' and 'sh/trivial' into sh-fixes-for-linus 2012-06-28 16:46:13 +09:00
sparc Fix typo in printed messages 2012-06-24 11:03:52 -07:00
tile tile: fix bug in get_user() for 4-byte values 2012-06-16 16:56:13 -04:00
um new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
unicore32 new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
x86 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-06-30 11:11:58 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: use the declarations provided by <asm/sections.h> 2012-06-20 14:39:35 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-05-25 09:18:59 -07:00