netdev - Re: [RFC v2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:26:25 +0300
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	ext Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof@...hat.com>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.bestler@...il.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <steve@...gwyn.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall

On Thursday 11 June 2009 06:40:22 ext Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h index 900e161..713a32a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
> @@ -661,6 +661,8 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_pwritev, sys_pwritev)
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo)
>  #define __NR_perf_counter_open                 298
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_perf_counter_open, sys_perf_counter_open)
> +#define __NR_recvmmsg                          299
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_recvmmsg, sys_recvmmsg)

I guess socketcall is deprecated in favor of full syscalls, then?
(sorry if this is a stupid question)

> +       if (timeout) {
> +               /* Doesn't make much sense */
> +               if (flags & MSG_DONTWAIT)
> +                       return -EINVAL;

An application could possibly hit this degenerated case at the end of a loop 
or whatever, and EINVAL makes it look like this is a bug. Why not EAGAIN?

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki

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