linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH vfs/vfs.fixes v2] eventpoll: Set epoll timeout if it's in the future

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Message-ID: <7122fe72-ebc2-4798-8a1d-d905debab092@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:32:21 +0100
From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
 Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
 open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfs/vfs.fixes v2] eventpoll: Set epoll timeout if it's in
 the future

On 4/28/25 2:18 PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> isn't ep_schedule_timeout buggy too? It compares a
> timeout value with the current time, that has to be reworked as well.

Ah, I see the timeout is relative to ktime_get_ts64() in
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(epoll_pwait2, ...), please ignore.