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SubjectRe: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Davide,
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:04 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > +static int timerfd_setup(struct timerfd_ctx *ctx, int clockid, int tmrtype,
> > + const struct itimerspec *ktmr)
> > +{
> > + enum hrtimer_mode htmode;
> > + ktime_t texp, tintv;
> > +
> > + if (clockid != CLOCK_MONOTONIC &&
> > + clockid != CLOCK_REALTIME)
> > + return -EINVAL;
>
> Please move the validation for clockid, tmrtype and the timerspec into
> sys_timerfd. Do it before anything else. Also please validate both
> it_value and it_interval unconditionally. Userspace should not send
> uninitialized stuff at all.

Ok.


> The TFD_TIMER_SEQ thing is quite different to all other timer interfaces
> which POSIX provides. Both itimers and posixtimers use the it_interval
> value to distinguish between one shot and periodic timers.
>
> I think we should keep this new interface analogous, so programmers
> don't get more confused, than they are already. :)

Yeah, this was already suggested by Nicholas Miell and was already in my
code.



> This also allows relative and absolute starting points for both one shot
> and sequential timers.
>
> Please use it_value == 0 to stop the timer. This is the same as for
> itimers and posixtimers. Right now you have to close the fd to stop a
> timer, but that's not necessarily what you want.

This too.



> If you do the validation right in sys_timerfd and get rid of
> TFD_TIMER_SEQ and the various useless fields, then timerfd_setup() boils
> down to
>
> ctx->ticks = 0;
> ctx->tintv = tintv;
> hrtimer_init(&ctx->tmr, clockid, htmode);
> ctx->tmr.function = timerfd_tmrproc;
>
> if (texp.tv64 != 0)
> hrtimer_start(&ctx->tmr, texp, htmode);
>
> and in the timer function you simply check for
>
> if (ctx->tintv.tv64 != 0)
>
> instead of the TIMER_SEQ mode.

This was done too, although I did not know I could reference the tv64
member directly, so I had a macro checking the timespec.



> > + if (ufd == -1) {
> > + error = -ENOMEM;
> > + ctx = kmem_cache_alloc(timerfd_ctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!ctx)
> > + goto err_exit;
>
> return -ENOMEM;

Ok.



> > + }
> > + /*
> > + * We need to stop the exiting timer before.
> > + */
>
> -ENOPARSE. You probably mean: We need to stop an already running timer
> before we do a new setup.

Bad description :)



- Davide


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