SIGNAL: Move generic copy_siginfo() to signal.h
authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:43:50 +0000 (18:43 +0000)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Fri, 13 May 2016 12:02:10 +0000 (14:02 +0200)
commitca9eb49aa9562eaadf3cea071ec7018ad6800425
tree63a1e6433f2eb0ceb6381ecaac9d69da73036f67
parent0e8c1a3247629ecb0e344655124fd59682410913
SIGNAL: Move generic copy_siginfo() to signal.h

The generic copy_siginfo() is currently defined in
asm-generic/siginfo.h, after including uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h which
defines the generic struct siginfo. However this makes it awkward for an
architecture to use it if it has to define its own struct siginfo (e.g.
MIPS and potentially IA64), since it means that asm-generic/siginfo.h
can only be included after defining the arch-specific siginfo, which may
be problematic if the arch-specific definition needs definitions from
uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h.

It is possible to work around this by first including
uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h to get the constants before defining the
arch-specific siginfo, and include asm-generic/siginfo.h after. However
uapi headers can't be included by other uapi headers, so that first
include has to be in an ifdef __kernel__, with the non __kernel__ case
including the non-UAPI header instead.

Instead of that mess, move the generic copy_siginfo() definition into
linux/signal.h, which allows an arch-specific uapi/asm/siginfo.h to
include asm-generic/siginfo.h and define the arch-specific siginfo, and
for the generic copy_siginfo() to see that arch-specific definition.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Christopher Ferris <cferris@google.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0-
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12478/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
include/linux/signal.h