On 05/29, David Daney wrote:
>
> On 05/29/2013 10:01 AM, James Hogan wrote:
>> MIPS has 128 signals, the highest of which has the number 128. The
>
> I wonder if we should change the ABI and reduce the number of signals to
> 127 instead of this patch.

Same thoughts...

>> @@ -2366,8 +2366,12 @@ relock:
>>
>>              /*
>>               * Death signals, no core dump.
>> +             *
>> +             * MIPS has a signal number 128 which clashes with the core dump
>> +             * bit. If this was the signal we still want to report a valid
>> +             * exit code, so round it down to 127.
>>               */
>> -            do_group_exit(info->si_signo);
>> +            do_group_exit(min(info->si_signo, 127));

This avoids BUG_ON() but obviously fools WIFSIGNALED(), doesn't look
very nice.

Oleg.

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