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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-06-06 14:37:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-06 16:08:12 -0700
commitb4e74264eb0b03f42097fa70a0766312156244a0 (patch)
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parent580d34e42ad621736a3c53c9c11a2152c18a4068 (diff)
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signals: introduce kernel_sigaction()
Now that allow_signal() is really trivial we can unify it with disallow_signal(). Add the new helper, kernel_sigaction(), and reimplement allow_signal/disallow_signal as a trivial wrappers. This saves one EXPORT_SYMBOL() and the new helper can have more users. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/signal.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/signal.h18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index ac83c593f4b9..c9e65360c49a 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -284,8 +284,22 @@ extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka,
extern void signal_setup_done(int failed, struct ksignal *ksig, int stepping);
extern void signal_delivered(int sig, siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs, int stepping);
extern void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk);
-extern void allow_signal(int);
-extern void disallow_signal(int);
+extern void kernel_sigaction(int, __sighandler_t);
+
+static inline void allow_signal(int sig)
+{
+ /*
+ * Kernel threads handle their own signals. Let the signal code
+ * know it'll be handled, so that they don't get converted to
+ * SIGKILL or just silently dropped.
+ */
+ kernel_sigaction(sig, (__force __sighandler_t)2);
+}
+
+static inline void disallow_signal(int sig)
+{
+ kernel_sigaction(sig, SIG_IGN);
+}
/*
* Eventually that'll replace get_signal_to_deliver(); macro for now,