Re: [PATCH 6/7] sched: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse

Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-22T06:56:26Z

On 21/11/2013 15:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote:

>> We don't override any limit the user has put on the system call.
>
> You are in fact, note how the normal select @endtime argument is only
> set up _after_ you're done polling. So if the syscall had a timeout of 5
> seconds, you just blew it by 55.
>

That's a bug, we will fix it.

Cheers,
Eliezer