On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > pulling the logics *out* of kernel/signal.c and into arch/*. > > Not really, I think.
How so? You propose to make all architectures call do_coredump() themselves, instead of having it done centrally. It's more boilerplate for all of them to get wrong. And IME any boilerplate in that are *will* be gotten wrong - I've gone through signal handling on all architectures more than a few times and every time it caught a pile of bugs... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/