From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, lkml@davidb.org, paulus@samba.org,
drepper@redhat.com, cfriesen@nortel.com, schwab@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:47:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071222124710.GC14767@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221.203640.46152937.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:36:40PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:53:11 +0100
>
> > > And to handle potentially ambiguous cases we, for a long time, have
> > > the force_successful_syscall_return() arch hook.
> >
> > Ah I see what you mean now.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Thanks for continuing to insist it's "impossible" :-)
It's still hard -- e.g. i'm not sure your condition flag setting would
be even possible for i386 SYSEXIT which does not restore EFLAGS
from memory and has some other constraints too. And there is no
free other register to use for this either on i386 nor x86-64.
Ok you could always disable SYSEXIT on force_successfull_return(),
but then e.g. all lseek()s would use the slow path which might not
be a good idea.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 22:47 compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0 David Brown
2007-11-07 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 0:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08 1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 1:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 2:09 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08 14:42 ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-09 18:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-12-20 11:36 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-12-20 11:51 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 0:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 1:41 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 1:45 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 1:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 4:36 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 12:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-12-22 1:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-08 19:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 3:13 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 5:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:24 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 4:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 5:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 5:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 6:25 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 7:14 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 8:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:22 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 19:27 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08 0:50 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 1:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 6:00 ` David Brown
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