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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow times and time system calls to return small negative values
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:57:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204075751.GA32594@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18743.25968.602602.875295@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


* Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> @@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_times(struct compat_tms __user *tbuf)
>  		if (copy_to_user(tbuf, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  	}
> +	force_successful_syscall_return();
>  	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);

just curious: what code does force_successful_syscall_return() actually 
run in the powerpc case - those bits are missing from this patch. I 
suspect it sets some sort of flag?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04  5:06 [PATCH] Allow times and time system calls to return small negative values Paul Mackerras
2008-12-04  5:23 ` David Miller
2008-12-04  7:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-12-04 10:49   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-04 15:40     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-04 16:01       ` [PATCH] Allow times and time system calls to return smallnegative values Joakim Tjernlund
2008-12-04 17:03       ` [PATCH] Allow times and time system calls to return small negative values David Miller

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