linux-kernel - Re: Tesing of / bugs in new timerfd API

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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:47:05 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, tytso@...nk.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Linux Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Tesing of / bugs in new timerfd API

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> > Can you try the two patches below? I tried them on my 32 bit box (one of
> > the rare beasts still lingering around here) and it seems to be working
> > fine (those go on top of the previous ones).
> 
> Against 2.6.24-rc5, I applied first your earlier patches ("v3") and
> then the newest patch.  My tests confirm that:
> 
> > This fixed the 32 bit tick-count truncation, and makes the time returned
> > to be the remaining time till the next expiration.
> 
> Are you going to resubmit a new patch set that includes these latest changes?

Yes, I'll send them out to Andrew today.


- Davide


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