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    [PATCH] ppc32: Fixes to the signal context code · 65941fab
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    
    This patch (which has been in my tree for some time now) does 2 things to
    the ppc32 signal code:
    
    - The new sys_swapcontext() syscall that we added recently (and which is
      _not_ yet used by glibc, so it's ok to change it slightly at this point,
      glibc kernel version check will limit us to 2.6.2 or 2.6.3) gets a new
      context size argument, so we can deal with future context size changes.
    
    - When ucontext is get/set/swapped using the above syscall, the TLS (r2)
      is preserved (it's still saved/restored on signal entry & return though).
    
    The equivalent of this patch is already in the ppc64 signal32.c emulation,
    and it has no effect until glibc is updated to use the new syscall, which
    should happen soon now, so please apply.
    65941fab
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