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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Removing tracehook.h
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To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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On 3/8/22 5:13 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> While working on cleaning up do_exit I have been having to deal with the
> code in tracehook.h.  Unfortunately the code in tracehook.h does not
> make sense as organized.
> 
> This set of changes reorganizes things so that tracehook.h no longer
> exists, and so that it's current contents are organized in a fashion
> that is a little easier to understand.
> 
> The biggest change is that I lean into the fact that get_signal
> always calls task_work_run and removes the logic that tried to
> be smart and decouple task_work_run and get_signal as it has proven
> to not be effective.
> 
> This is a conservative change and I am not changing the how things
> like signal_pending operate (although it is probably justified).
> 
> A new header resume_user_mode.h is added to hold resume_user_mode_work
> which was previously known as tracehook_notify_resume.

This is a nice cleanup. I did bother me adding the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
bits and work hooks to something unrelated, but that's where other
things resided then. This makes it a lot better.

-- 
Jens Axboe