From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754256AbXLVBwY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:52:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbXLVBwS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:52:18 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:47507 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750907AbXLVBwR (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:52:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:53:11 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: David Miller Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lkml@davidb.org, paulus@samba.org, drepper@redhat.com, cfriesen@nortel.com, schwab@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0. Message-ID: <20071222015311.GB4477@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20071220.035104.240386115.davem@davemloft.net> <20071221.174124.208826257.davem@davemloft.net> <20071221.174547.136433173.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071221.174547.136433173.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > And to handle potentially ambiguous cases we, for a long time, have > the force_successful_syscall_return() arch hook. Ah I see what you mean now. Thanks for the clarification. Ok that could be in theory made to work yes. The migration would probably be ugly though (how would glibc figure out if the kernel does that or not?) -Andi