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Message-ID: <18743.46549.833800.667962@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:49:57 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Joakim.Tjernlund@...nsmode.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow times and time system calls to return small
negative values
Ingo Molnar writes:
> > + force_successful_syscall_return();
> > return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);
>
> just curious: what code does force_successful_syscall_return() actually
> run in the powerpc case - those bits are missing from this patch. I
> suspect it sets some sort of flag?
It sets the TIF_NOERROR thread flag, which is tested in the syscall
exit path along with various other thread flags.
force_successful_syscall_return() is defined for powerpc in
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h. It's nothing new, it has existed
for ages and is used in a few other places already. It has existing
non-null definitions on alpha, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64.
Paul.
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