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Hi folks, This patch fixes the alarm() system call return value. The alarm(2) syscall is supposed to return the reamining seconds. The hrtimer switchover broke this because the code tries to gather the remaining time _after_ canceling the timer. Trivial fix below. Please apply, Gerd -- Gerd 'just married' Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr. http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/just-married.jpeg Index: linux-2.6.15/kernel/itimer.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.15.orig/kernel/itimer.c 2006-01-27 16:11:33.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.15/kernel/itimer.c 2006-01-27 17:01:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -151,12 +151,12 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itime switch (which) { case ITIMER_REAL: timer = &tsk->signal->real_timer; - hrtimer_cancel(timer); if (ovalue) { ovalue->it_value = itimer_get_remtime(timer); ovalue->it_interval = ktime_to_timeval(tsk->signal->it_real_incr); } + hrtimer_cancel(timer); tsk->signal->it_real_incr = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_interval); expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value); | ||||||||||||
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