* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

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> > Currently a SIGTRAP can denote any one of below reasons.
> > 	- Breakpoint hit
> > 	- H/W debug register hit
> > 	- Single step
> > 	- Signal sent through kill() or rasie()
> > 
> > Architectures like powerpc/parisc provides infrastructure to 
> > demultiplex SIGTRAP signal by passing down the information for 
> > receiving SIGTRAP through si_code of siginfot_t structure. Here is an 
> > attempt is generalise this infrastructure by extending it to x86 and 
> > x86_64 archs.
> 
> applied to [the new topic] tip/core/signal, thanks Srinivasa! There 
> are some other pending x86 signal changes already, so i based 
> tip/core/signal on tip/x86/signal.

-tip testing found the following build error with the attached config:

In file included from arch/x86/mm/fault.c:41:
include/asm/traps.h: In function