From: Oleg Nesterov With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/signal.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~do_sigaction-remove-now-unneeded-recalc_sigpending kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~do_sigaction-remove-now-unneeded-recalc_sigpending +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -2327,7 +2327,6 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigac rm_from_queue_full(&mask, &t->signal->shared_pending); do { rm_from_queue_full(&mask, &t->pending); - recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t); t = next_thread(t); } while (t != current); } _