Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752573AbYC3Kxc (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbYC3KxQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:53:16 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:41819 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913AbYC3KxP (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:53:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18415.28947.208842.304790@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:53:07 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton , Martin Schwidefsky , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING In-Reply-To: References: <20080329001230.D013726FA1D@magilla.localdomain> <20080329001341.7F93826FA1D@magilla.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 16 Linus Torvalds writes: > Of course, it may well not be worth it. Unlike the TIF flags, the TS flags > have been architecture-specific and I don't think all architectures even > do them (x86 uses them for FP state bits and stuff like that). Powerpc has a "local_flags" field. I don't mind changing it if we are going to have a consistent name across architectures, but "status" (as x86 uses) seems a bit nondescript to me. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/