Re: [patch 1/3] new timerfd API - new timerfd API

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> >  struct timerfd_ctx {
> >  	struct hrtimer tmr;
> > +	int clockid;
> >  	ktime_t tintv;
> >  	wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> >  	int expired;
> > +	u64 ticks;
> >  };
> 
> Can you please restructure the struct in a way which does not result in
> padding by the compiler ?
> 
> struct timerfd_ctx {
> 	struct hrtimer tmr;
> 	ktime_t tintv;
> 	wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> 	u64 ticks;
> 	int expired;
> 	int clockid;
> };

Sure.



> > +			ticks += (u64)
> >  				hrtimer_forward(&ctx->tmr,
> >  						hrtimer_cb_get_time(&ctx->tmr),
> 
> You need to use ctx->tmr.base->get_time() here, otherwise you might read
> a stale time value (in case that CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is off).

Is the particular position of hrtimer_cb_get_time() in the code that would 
break here? Because function was added by your patch ;)
Did something change later?



> > +err_kfree_ctx:
> > +	kfree(ctx);
> > +	return error;
> 
> You really can avoid the goto here.

Ack.



- Davide