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4ff17cf0aa8854941dc0538c74d4f1677a570575 linux-user: Remove stale "not threadsafe" comments
In linux-user/signal.c we have two FIXME comments claiming that
parts of the signal-handling code are not threadsafe. These are
very old, as they were first introduced in commit 624f7979058
in 2008. Since then we've radically overhauled the signal-handling
logic, while carefully preserving these FIXME comments.
It's unclear exactly what thread-safety issue the original
author was trying to point out -- the relevant data structures
are in the TaskStruct, which makes them per-thread and only
operated on by that thread. The old code at the time of that
commit did have various races involving signal handlers being
invoked at awkward times; possibly this was what was meant.
Delete these FIXME comments:
* they were written at a time when the way we handled
signals was completely different
* the code today appears to us to not have thread-safety issues
* nobody knows what the problem the comments were trying to
point out was
so they are serving no useful purpose for us today.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Message-Id: <20220114155032.3767771-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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