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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

  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-13 12:04 Thomas Meyer

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