In linux-user/signal.c we have two FIXME comments claiming that
parts of the signal-handling code are not threadsafe. These are
very old, as they were first introduced in commit 624f7979058
in 2008. Since then we've radically overhauled the signal-handling
logic, while carefully preserving these FIXME comments.
It's unclear exactly what thread-safety issue the original
author was trying to point out -- the relevant data structures
are in the TaskStruct, which makes them per-thread and only
operated on by that thread. The old code at the time of that
commit did have various races involving signal handlers being
invoked at awkward times; possibly this was what was meant.
Delete these FIXME comments:
* they were written at a time when the way we handled
signals was completely different
* the code today appears to us to not have thread-safety issues
* nobody knows what the problem the comments were trying to
point out was
so they are serving no useful purpose for us today.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Marked "RFC" because I'm a bit uneasy with deleting FIXMEs
simply because I can't personally figure out why they're
there. This patch is more to start a discussion to see
if anybody does understand the issue -- in which case we
can instead augment the comments to describe it.
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linux-user/signal.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)