signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags
authorStas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:20:03 +0000 (23:20 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 3 May 2016 06:37:59 +0000 (08:37 +0200)
commit407bc16ad1769f5cb8ad9555611cb198187ef4cd
tree11a1a32c130e7e09364f20c0a2ee9ae1334074f7
parent0b4521e8cf1f582da3045ea460427ac2f741578f
signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags

This patch adds SS_FLAG_BITS - the mask that splits sigaltstack
mode values and bit-flags. Since there is no bit-flags yet, the
mask is defined to 0. The flags are added by subsequent patches.
With every new flag, the mask should have the appropriate bit cleared.

This makes sure if some flag is tried on a kernel that doesn't
support it, the -EINVAL error will be returned, because such a
flag will be treated as an invalid mode rather than the bit-flag.

That way the existence of the particular features can be probed
at run-time.

This change was suggested by Andy Lutomirski:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/158

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-3-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/uapi/linux/signal.h
kernel/signal.c