Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: add EMAXERRNO | From | liqin.chen@sunplusc ... | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:04:10 +0800 |
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linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org 写于 2009-06-15 22:02:42:
> On Monday 15 June 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > Some architectures want to flag error returns from a syscall based on > > > the return value. The range from zero to -511 is for errors that > > > we can return to user space, so add a #define for this to > > > include/asm-generic/errno.h. > > > > I thought we could return anything up to -4095. > > Sort of, yes. Internally to the kernel, we use anything up to 4095, > that's e.g. IS_ERR_VALUE checks for. > > Error numbers from 512 to 4095 are internal and should never be seen > by the user. > > In reality, it probably does not matter at all because we know what > error numbers we use. Now that you pointed me to include/linux/err.h, > that already defines MAX_ERRNO. > > Liqin, I think I'd prefer to just drop my patch again, and you can > use MAX_ERRNO, which is defined in err.h. > OK. But I think move MAX_ERRNO define from include/linux/err.h to include/asm-generic/errno.h will be more clear. And no harm to include/linux/err.h file.
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