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Implement sending signals to blocked-in-kernel processes.

This is dirty but pretty cool! If we have a pending, unmasked signal for
a process that's blocked inside the kernel, we set up alternate stacks
for that process and unblock it to execute the signal handler.

A slightly different return trampoline is used here: since we need to
get back into the kernel, a dedicated syscall is used (sys$sigreturn.)

This restores the TSS contents of the process to the state it was in
while we were originally blocking in the kernel.

NOTE: There's currently only one "kernel resume TSS" so signal nesting
definitely won't work.
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Kling 2018-11-07 21:19:47 +01:00
parent c8b308910e
commit 03a8357e84
10 changed files with 190 additions and 27 deletions

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@ -331,8 +331,12 @@ int main(int, char**)
char keybuf[16];
ssize_t nread = read(0, keybuf, sizeof(keybuf));
if (nread < 0) {
printf("failed to read :(\n");
return 2;
if (errno == EINTR) {
// Ignore. :^)
} else {
perror("read failed");
return 2;
}
}
for (ssize_t i = 0; i < nread; ++i) {
putchar(keybuf[i]);