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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	albert@users.sourceforge.net, paulus@samba.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, mahuja@us.ibm.com, donf@us.ibm.com,
	mpm@selenic.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday-based soft-timer subsystem
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:22:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4277B34C.4000403@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050503170224.GA2776@us.ibm.com>

Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> but then there is another issue: the restart_block used by
> sys_nanosleep() only allows for 4 unsigned long arguments, when, in
> fact, nanoseconds are a 64-bit quantity in the kernel. As long as the
> nanosleep() request is no more than around 4 seconds, we should be ok
> using unsigned longs.

My man page for nanosleep specifies that the "nanoseconds" portion of 
the timespec must be under 1 billion and is of type "long".  Is that no 
longer valid?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-29 22:45 [RFC][PATCH (1/4)] new timeofday core subsystem (v A4) john stultz
2005-04-29 22:46 ` [RFC][PATCH (2/4)] new timeofday arch specific hooks " john stultz
2005-04-29 22:47   ` [RFC][PATCH (3/4)] new timeofday arch specific timesource drivers " john stultz
2005-04-29 22:48     ` [RFC][PATCH (4/4)] new timeofday vsyscall proof of concept " john stultz
2005-05-02 21:13   ` [RFC][PATCH (2/4)] new timeofday arch specific hooks " Pavel Machek
2005-05-02 21:28     ` john stultz
2005-04-29 23:35 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday-based soft-timer subsystem Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-05-02 18:41   ` Darren Hart
2005-05-03 17:02   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-05-03 17:22     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-05-03 18:07       ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-05-03 21:47     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-04-29 23:44 ` [RFC][PATCH (1/4)] new timeofday core subsystem (v A4) john stultz
2005-04-29 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-30  0:33   ` john stultz

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