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    [IA64] Liberate the signal layer from IA64 assembler · 4035c6db
    Andi Kleen authored
    Currently IA64 has a assembler implementation of sigrtprocmask.
    Having a single architecture implement this in assembler language
    is a serious maintenance problem that inhibits further evolution of the
    signal subsystem.  Everyone who wants to do deep changes to signals
    would need to learn that assembler language.
    
    Whatever performance improvements IA64 gets from this it cannot be worth
    the price in maintainability.
    
    We have some locking problems in signal that need to be fixed,
    but this roadblock needs to be removed first.
    
    So just disable the special assembler IA64 implementation and fall back to a
    normal syscall there.
    Acked-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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