Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: switch osf_sigprocmask() to use of sigprocmask()

[Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:39:01PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> It appears to be worse than that.  It introduces a regression.  On boot up 
> on a Compaq Alpha XP1000 the system appears to freeze at the point of 
> mounting swap.  It eventually resumes after almost three minutes and 
> continues to boot.  A bisection returned this very commit as the first bad 
> commit.  With a kernel without this commit the (truncated) bootup log is:

Confirmed, I see some processes get stuck, apparently waiting for signals.

Looks like yet another typo - _BLOCKABLE is defined as
(~(sigmask(SIGKILL) | sigmask(SIGSTOP))), so (newmask & ~_BLOCKABLE)
clears everything but SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.

Ivan.

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
index d290845..6f7feb5 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_sigprocmask, int, how, unsigned long, newmask)
 	sigset_t mask;
 	unsigned long res;
 
-	siginitset(&mask, newmask & ~_BLOCKABLE);
+	siginitset(&mask, newmask & _BLOCKABLE);
 	res = sigprocmask(how, &mask, &oldmask);
 	if (!res) {
 		force_successful_syscall_return();