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    MIPS signal handling fixes. · 0b1bcb00
    Paul Brook authored
    Also fixes a register corruption bug in do_sigreturn. When "returning"
    from sigreturn we are actually restoring the virtual cpu state from the
    signal frame.  This is actually surprisingly hard to observe in practice.
    
    Typically an thread be blocked in a FUTEX_WAIT call when the signal arrives,
    so the effect is a spurious syscall success and the introduction of a
    subtle race condition.
    
    On x86/arm a syscall modifies a single word sized register, so
    do_sigreturn can just return that value.  On MIPS a syscall clobbers
    multiple registers, so we need additional smarts.  My solution is to
    invent a magic errno value that means "don't touch CPU state".
    
    
    git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7194 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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