sched/signals: add support to partially or fully disable signals

[wangchdo]

Summary

Signals in NuttX serve two primary purposes:

1. Synchronization and wake-up
   Signals can be used to block threads on specific signal sets and later wake them up by delivering the corresponding signals to those threads.

2. Asynchronous notification
   Signals can also be used to register callback handlers for specific signals, allowing threads to asynchronously invoke those handlers when the signals are delivered.

The PR #17357 Introduced the ability to disable only the synchronization and wake-up functionality of signals, while retaining part of the signal infrastructure. This allows moderate memory savings and performance improvements.

The PR #17352 Introduced the ability to completely disable all signal functionality, providing more aggressive memory reduction and performance optimization.

This PR consolidates the above two efforts and introduces a unified mechanism that supports both:

1. Partial signal disablement: disabling only asynchronous notification while retaining synchronization and wake-up functionality.

2. Full signal disablement: disabling both synchronization / wake-up and asynchronous notification functionality.

This consolidation enables finer-grained control over signal usage, allowing system integrators to better balance functionality, memory footprint, and performance for different use cases.

Impact

Provide configuration to fully or partially disable signals, should have no impact to exist nuttx functions if
the configuration is not enabled

this PR depends on apache/nuttx-apps#3333 to fix build dependency issues when signals are partially or fully disabled.

Testing

Below tests depend on apache/nuttx-apps#3333

ostest passed on rv-virt:smp64 when CONFIG_ENABLE_PARTIAL_SIGNALS=y

nsh> uname -a
NuttX 0.0.0 3503bbec44-dirty Dec 23 2025 11:32:43 risc-v rv-virt
nsh> ostest

(...)

smp_call_test: Call cpu 1, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 2, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 2, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 3, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 3, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 4, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 4, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 5, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 5, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 6, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 6, wait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 7, nowait
smp_call_test: Call cpu 7, wait
smp_call_test: Call multi cpu, nowait
smp_call_test: Call in interrupt, wait
smp_call_test: Call multi cpu, wait
smp_call_test: Test success

Final memory usage:
VARIABLE  BEFORE   AFTER
======== ======== ========
arena     1fc23e0  1fc23e0
ordblks         1        7
mxordblk  1fb72f0  1fa4140
uordblks     b0f0    14df8
fordblks  1fb72f0  1fad5e8
user_main: Exiting
ostest_main: Exiting with status 0

[acassis]

@Fix-Point please help to review

[wangchdo]

@wangchdo could you give the size difference between three option?

I choose nucleo-f302r8:ihm07m1_b16 as an example:

CONFIG_ENABLE_ALL_SIGNALS=y

Memory region         Used Size  Region Size  %age Used
                        flash:       64228 B        64 KB     98.00%
                        sram:        5928 B        16 KB     36.18%

CONFIG_ENABLE_PARTIAL_SIGNALS=y:

Memory region         Used Size  Region Size  %age Used
                        flash:       61964 B        64 KB     94.55%
                         sram:        5296 B        16 KB     32.32%

CONFIG_DISABLE_ALL_SIGNALS=y:

Memory region         Used Size  Region Size  %age Used
                        flash:       60696 B        64 KB     92.61%
                        sram:        5264 B        16 KB     32.13%

[xiaoxiang781216]

Configuration/Tool: stm32f103-minimum/adb,CONFIG_ARM_TOOLCHAIN_GNU_EABI
2026-01-15 11:48:54
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Cleaning...
  Configuring...
  Disabling CONFIG_ARM_TOOLCHAIN_GNU_EABI
  Enabling CONFIG_ARM_TOOLCHAIN_GNU_EABI
  Building NuttX...
arm-none-eabi-ld: /github/workspace/sources/nuttx/staging/libapps.a(signal.c.github.workspace.sources.apps.system.libuv_1.o): in function `uv__signal_register_handler':
signal.c:(.text.uv__signal_register_handler+0x32): undefined reference to `sigaction'
arm-none-eabi-ld: /github/workspace/sources/nuttx/staging/libapps.a(signal.c.github.workspace.sources.apps.system.libuv_1.o): in function `uv__signal_stop':
signal.c:(.text.uv__signal_stop+0x1b2): undefined reference to `sigaction'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:217: nuttx] Error 1
make: *** [tools/Unix.mk:552: nuttx] Error 2

@wangchdo need make libuv skip signal related function if signal is disabled.

[wangchdo]

@xiaoxiang781216 @anchao @acassis

CI is failing because of dependency on apache/nuttx-apps#3333

Shall we merge apache/nuttx-apps#3333 firstly and then restart the CI?

[xiaoxiang781216]

@xiaoxiang781216 @anchao @acassis

CI is failing because of dependency on apache/nuttx-apps#3333

Shall we merge apache/nuttx-apps#3333 firstly and then restart the CI?

yes, let's merge apache/nuttx-apps#3333 and restart again.

[xiaoxiang781216]

but we need add CONFIG_ENABLE_ALL_SIGNALS to the related defconfig without wating apache/nuttx-apps#3333

[wangchdo]

but we need add CONFIG_ENABLE_ALL_SIGNALS to the related defconfig without wating apache/nuttx-apps#3333

OK, I added defconfig update

[acassis]

@wangchdo I think you need to refresh these board profiles:

   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
	modified:   boards/arm/mps/mps3-an547/configs/ap/defconfig
	modified:   boards/arm/mps/mps3-an547/configs/bl/defconfig
	modified:   boards/arm/nrf53/nrf5340-dk/configs/sdc_nimble_cpunet/defconfig

[wangchdo]

@wangchdo I think you need to refresh these board profiles:

   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)

  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   boards/arm/mps/mps3-an547/configs/ap/defconfig

	modified:   boards/arm/mps/mps3-an547/configs/bl/defconfig

	modified:   boards/arm/nrf53/nrf5340-dk/configs/sdc_nimble_cpunet/defconfig

OK, refreshed