Linux Signal Delivery

Notes on linux signal delivery on the low level: regarding context, pt_regs and stacks

Places to look at

arch/xyz/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h
    struct ucontext

arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sisgcontext.h
    struct sigcontext

include/linux/signal_types.h
    struct ksignal

kernel/signal.c
    int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact)

kernel/signal.c
arch/xyz/kernel/signal.c
    
    

man pages: signal (7) : signal - overview of signals

“important” places in the source tree:

arch/xyz/include/asm/processor.h
    processor specific structs like `struct thread_struct`

include/linux/sched.h
    struct task_struct

arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c

struct rt_sigframe {
	struct siginfo info;
	struct ucontext uc;
};

struct rt_sigframe_user_layout {
	struct rt_sigframe __user *sigframe;
	struct frame_record __user *next_frame;

	unsigned long size;	/* size of allocated sigframe data */
	unsigned long limit;	/* largest allowed size */

	unsigned long fpsimd_offset;
	unsigned long esr_offset;
	unsigned long sve_offset;
	unsigned long tpidr2_offset;
	unsigned long za_offset;
	unsigned long zt_offset;
	unsigned long extra_offset;
	unsigned long end_offset;
};

Some random stuffs in the linux kernel source code.

task_struct in sched.h

/*
 * WARNING: on x86, 'thread_struct' contains a variable-sized
 * structure.  It *MUST* be at the end of 'task_struct'.
 *
 * Do not put anything below here!
 */