signals: consolidate send_sigqueue and send_group_sigqueue
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:52:41 +0000 (00:52 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:34 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
commit9e3bd6c3fb2334be171e69b432039cd18bce4458
tree199963534d6379457d84e6f2ead2b104088182dd
parentc5363d03637885310f1101b95cbbd26d067b4c8d
signals: consolidate send_sigqueue and send_group_sigqueue

Both functions do the same thing after proper locking, but with
different sigpending structs, so move the common code into a helper.

After this we have 4 places that look very similar: send_sigqueue: calls
do_send_sigqueue and signal_wakeup send_group_sigqueue: calls
do_send_sigqueue and __group_complete_signal __group_send_sig_info:
calls send_signal and __group_complete_signal specific_send_sig_info:
calls send_signal and signal_wakeup

Besides, send_signal performs actions similar to do_send_sigqueue's
and __group_complete_signal - to signal_wakeup.

It looks like they can be consolidated gracefully.

Oleg said:

  Personally, I think this change is very good.  But send_sigqueue() and
  send_group_sigqueue() have a very subtle difference which I was never able
  to understand.

  Let's suppose that sigqueue is already queued, and the signal is ignored
  (the latter means we should re-schedule cpu timer or handle overrruns).  In
  that case send_sigqueue() returns 0, but send_group_sigqueue() returns 1.

  I think this is not the problem (in fact, I think this patch makes the
  behaviour more correct), but I hope Thomas can take a look and confirm.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/signal.c