Re: alpha bug in signal handling

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>I think David (Mosberger, not Miller :) is right here, and in fact
>this is also wrong on PPC at the moment.  However, the worst case is
>that the reschedule or signal delivery will get delayed until the next
>interrupt on that cpu (max 1/HZ seconds).  Since it is a pretty narrow
>window for the race I think it would be hard to observe the effect of
>the bug.

Yup, I found that some time ago. I though I even fixed it while hacking
on the return from exception path. The fix has probably been lost along
with some of that experimental stuff I was doing at that time though,
I remember you saying the problem wasn't that big.

Ben.