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2013-02-15	ARC: [Review] Prevent incorrect syscall restarts	Vineet Gupta
	Per Al Viro's "signals for dummies" https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/366 there are 3 golden rules for (not) restarting syscalls: " What we need to guarantee is * restarts do not happen on signals caught in interrupts or exceptions * restarts do not happen on signals caught in sigreturn() * restart should happen only once, even if we get through do_signal() many times." ARC Port already handled #1, this patch fixes #2 and #3. We use the additional state in pt_regs->orig_r8 to ckh if restarting has already been done once. Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-15	ARC: Signal handling	Vineet Gupta
	Includes following fixes courtesy review by Al-Viro * Tracer poke to Callee-regs were lost Before going off into do_signal( ) we save the user-mode callee regs (as they are not saved by default as part of pt_regs). This is to make sure that that a Tracer (if tracing related signal) is able to do likes of PEEKUSR(callee-reg). However in return path we were simply discarding the user-mode callee regs, which would break a POKEUSR(callee-reg) from a tracer. * Issue related to multiple syscall restarts are addressed in next patch Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>