From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Sadashiiv, Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: RE: Regarding select() on PPC
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:55:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222145741.12085.88.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B7EF7F090B9804A830ACC82F2CDE95D56E135@insardxms01.ap.sony.com>
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:20 +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The below testcase requires to exit with setting errno as EINVAL, as per
> the man page.
>
> I tested this on ARM, I686, PPC64 it was fine, for the same on PPC32 it
> used exit with errno set as EFAULT.
>
> On further investigation found there was some long obsolete code in
> arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c (function ppc_select()), which was
> written in 2.2.0 kernel for PPC32 specific , which resulted in EFAULT.
>
> This needs to be verified, I have proposed patch for PPC32, Please check
> the link
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/735922
>
I'm trying to sort out how obsolete it actually is and see if we can
remove the whole thing.
Your patch should be submitted to the linuxppc-dev mailing list btw.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 4:50 Regarding select() on PPC Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 4:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2008-09-23 9:31 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 7:16 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 9:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 6:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-24 6:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 6:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-24 7:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-23 5:27 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 5:01 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 5:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-23 5:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-23 5:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-23 6:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-23 6:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-22 15:30 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-22 15:15 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-22 15:24 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-23 4:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-19 14:28 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-19 14:04 Halesh S
2008-09-22 14:47 ` Halesh S
2008-09-22 15:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-09-22 15:45 ` Halesh S
2008-09-23 4:25 ` Halesh S
2008-09-19 13:30 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-19 14:19 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-19 11:50 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-19 14:53 ` Dale Farnsworth
2008-09-19 16:53 ` Dale Farnsworth
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