From: Bharath Ramesh <[email protected]>
A question on sigwaitinfo based IO mechanism in multithreaded applications.
I am trying to use RT signals to notify me of IO events using RT signals
instead of SIGIO in a multithreaded applications. I noticed that there was
some discussion on lkml during november 1999 with the subject of the
discussion as "Signal driven IO". In the thread I noticed that RT signals
were being delivered to the worker thread. I am running 2.6.10 kernel and
I am trying to use the very same mechanism and I find that only SIGIO being
propogated to the worker threads and RT signals only being propogated to
the main thread and not the worker threads where I actually want them to be
propogated too. On further inspection I found that the following patch
which I have attached solves the problem.
I am not sure if this is a bug or feature in the kernel.
Roland McGrath <[email protected]> said:
This relates only to fcntl F_SETSIG, which is a Linux extension. So there is
no POSIX issue. When changing various things like the normal SIGIO signalling
to do group signals, I was concerned strictly with the POSIX semantics and
generally avoided touching things in the domain of Linux inventions. That's
why I didn't change this when I changed the call right next to it. There is
no reason I can see that F_SETSIG-requested signals shouldn't use a group
signal like normal SIGIO does. I'm happy to ACK this patch, there is nothing
wrong with its change to the semantics in my book. But neither POSIX nor I
care a whit what F_SETSIG does.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
25-akpm/fs/fcntl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/fcntl.c~async-io-using-rt-signals fs/fcntl.c
--- 25/fs/fcntl.c~async-io-using-rt-signals 2005-04-12 03:21:33.611027248 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/fcntl.c 2005-04-12 03:21:33.614026792 -0700
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct ta
else
si.si_band = band_table[reason - POLL_IN];
si.si_fd = fd;
- if (!send_sig_info(fown->signum, &si, p))
+ if (!send_group_sig_info(fown->signum, &si, p))
break;
/* fall-through: fall back on the old plain SIGIO signal */
case 0:
_
-
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