signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
We reserve 128 bytes for struct siginfo but only use about 48 bytes on
64bit and 32 bytes on 32bit. Someday we might use more but it is unlikely
to be anytime soon.
Userspace seems content with just enough bytes of siginfo to implement
sigqueue. Or in the case of checkpoint/restart reinjecting signals
the kernel has sent.
Reducing the stack footprint and the work to copy siginfo around from
2 cachelines to 1 cachelines seems worth doing even if I don't have
benchmarks to show a performance difference.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 70031b10..706a499 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static inline void clear_siginfo(kernel_siginfo_t *info)
memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
}
+#define SI_EXPANSION_SIZE (sizeof(struct siginfo) - sizeof(struct kernel_siginfo))
+
int copy_siginfo_to_user(siginfo_t __user *to, const kernel_siginfo_t *from);
int copy_siginfo_from_user(kernel_siginfo_t *to, const siginfo_t __user *from);
