linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add clock_gettime

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Message-ID: <4EFBB1F9.5050506@fb.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:19:05 -0800
From:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add clock_gettime_ns syscall

On 12/28/11 3:42 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Something like:
>
> u64 __vdso_clock_gettime_ns(clock_t clockid, struct timens_extra *extra)
> {
>    extra->padding = 0;
>    return<the time>;
> }
>
>
> might be okay.

I think you want s64 as the return type (for both 32 and 64 bit). This 
is what I was trying to suggest as well.

  -Arun (Clicks the virtually non-existent like button)
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