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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 2/8] clock device: convert clock_gettime
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On Tuesday 09 November 2010, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:56:50AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 November 2010, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD_MASK 4
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_WHICH(clock) ((clock) & (clockid_t) CPUCLOCK_CLOCK_MASK)
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_CLOCK_MASK 3
> > > @@ -28,12 +40,17 @@ struct cpu_timer_list {
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_VIRT 1
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_SCHED 2
> > > #define CPUCLOCK_MAX 3
> > > +#define CLOCKFD CPUCLOCK_MAX
> > > +#define CLOCKFD_MASK (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD_MASK|CPUCLOCK_CLOCK_MASK)
> >
> > It looks like you are turning a kernel internal interface into a user ABI,
> > which I think is highly questionable. Using the bits like this internally is
> > ok, but making it part of the syscall ABI means that we can never change this
> > in the future.
>
> This set of defines is already part of the ABI and has been copied
> into glibc. I am extending the (mis)use of the clock id by adding one
> more case.

Ok, that is very different then. I wonder why posix-timers.h is not an exported
header file, it might be good to change that to make it explicit which parts of
it define the ABI and which parts are kernel internal.

Arnd


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