parisc: Drop parisc special case for __sighandler_t

I believe we can and *should* drop this parisc-specific typedef for
__sighandler_t when compiling a 64-bit kernel. The reasons:

1. We don't have a 64-bit userspace yet, so nothing (on userspace side)
can break.

2. Inside the Linux kernel, this is only used in kernel/signal.c, in
function kernel_sigaction() where the signal handler is compared against
SIG_IGN.  SIG_IGN is defined as (__sighandler_t)1), so only the pointers
are compared.

3. Even when a 64-bit userspace gets added at some point, I think
__sighandler_t should be defined what it is: a function pointer struct.

I compiled kernel/signal.c with and without the patch, and the produced code
is identical in both cases.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I21c43f21b264f339e3aa395626af838646f62d97
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a75b8eb7bb9eac1cf73fb119eb53e5892d6e9656.1605235762.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Helge Deller 2020-11-12 18:53:31 -08:00 committed by Eric W. Biederman
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struct siginfo;
/* Type of a signal handler. */
#if defined(__LP64__)
/* function pointers on 64-bit parisc are pointers to little structs and the
* compiler doesn't support code which changes or tests the address of
* the function in the little struct. This is really ugly -PB
*/
typedef char __user *__sighandler_t;
#else
typedef void __signalfn_t(int);
typedef __signalfn_t __user *__sighandler_t;
#endif
typedef struct sigaltstack {
void __user *ss_sp;