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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-09-25 11:27:20 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-10-03 16:47:43 +0200
commitae7795bc6187a15ec51cf258abae656a625f9980 (patch)
tree2456aa85c6b4be1ac58e272393056c0edbee038a /kernel/time
parent4cd2e0e70af6897ca2247fa1ffb1553ca16b4903 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae7795bc6187a15ec51cf258abae656a625f9980.tar.bz2
signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying around in the kernel. The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in the kernel that embed struct siginfo. So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to 128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo. The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have the same field offsets. To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/posix-timers.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index 4b9127e95430..eabb4c22728d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static void common_hrtimer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timr)
* To protect against the timer going away while the interrupt is queued,
* we require that the it_requeue_pending flag be set.
*/
-void posixtimer_rearm(struct siginfo *info)
+void posixtimer_rearm(struct kernel_siginfo *info)
{
struct k_itimer *timr;
unsigned long flags;