task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
There are a small handful of reasons besides pending signals that the kernel might want to break out of interruptible sleeps. The flag TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and the helpers that set and clear TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL provide that the infrastructure for breaking out of interruptible sleeps and entering the return to user space slow path for those cases. Expand tracehook_notify_signal inline in it's callers and remove it, which makes clear that TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work are separate concepts. Update the comment on set_notify_signal to more accurately describe it's purpose. Reviewed-by:Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-9-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by:
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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