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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] aarch64: Re-implement setcontext without rt_sigreturn syscall


On 17 April 2014 10:02, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2014 12:32, Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2014-04-01  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>
>>
>>         [BZ #16629]
>>         * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/setcontext.S (__setcontext):
>>         Re-implement to restore registers in user code and avoid
>>         rt_sigreturn system call.
>
> OK, but, with reference to:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00594.html
>
> would you mind adding a comment to the context recovery code spelling
> out that we don;t handle kernel created contexts therefore it is safe
> to assume a fixed context layout?

Thanks Marcus, committed with a comment added.

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro


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