Re: unkillable process due to setup_frame() failure

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > So, the process can not be kill by SIGKILL.  In 2.6.12, 'sigkill
> > priority fix' was applied to __dequeue_signal(), but it does not help
> > while the SIGTRAP is queued to tsk->pending but SIGKILL (by kill
> > command) is queued to tsk->signal->shared_pending.
> 
> The behaviour of not advancing the EPC beyond the faulting instruction is
> part of the problem - but I believe that was the usual behaviour for
> MIPS UNIXoid operating systems.

 Well, SIGKILL should always work and frankly I can't see a reason to 
return back to user space in the affected context in the first place.  
What's left in EPC shouldn't matter.

  Maciej