From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: a question regarding sys_poll() on x86_64 via tha ia32 layer
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:44:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2boulg0pe.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316089435.2893.6.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:23:55 +0200")
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:
>
> SYSCALL_DEFINE3(poll, struct pollfd __user *, ufds, unsigned int, nfds,
> - long, timeout_msecs)
> + int, timeout_msecs)
The preferred fix is normally to write a compat wrapper that sign
extends.
Maybe someone on 64bit really wants to wait for a long time, but
not forever.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-15 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 11:40 a question regarding sys_poll() on x86_64 via tha ia32 layer Thomas Meyer
2011-09-15 12:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-15 13:00 ` Thomas Meyer
2011-09-15 14:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-15 17:44 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2011-09-13 12:04 Thomas Meyer
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