From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Shuo Chen <shuochen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] epoll: add nsec timeout support
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:54:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF=yD-LGtfPGuqM8WP5Wz7d9_u6x-HdeBitKg81zdA8E6tMQwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eead2765ea5e417abe616950b4e5d02f@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:11 PM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
>
> From: Willem de Bruijn
> > Sent: 16 November 2020 17:01
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:19 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:10:01AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
> > > > index 8a3432d0f0dc..f6ef9c9f8ac2 100644
> > > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
> > > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
> > > > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> > > >
> > > > /* Flags for epoll_create1. */
> > > > #define EPOLL_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
> > > > +#define EPOLL_NSTIMEO 0x1
> > > >
> > > > /* Valid opcodes to issue to sys_epoll_ctl() */
> > > > #define EPOLL_CTL_ADD 1
> > >
> > > Not a problem with your patch, but this concerns me. O_CLOEXEC is
> > > defined differently for each architecture, so we need to stay out of
> > > several different bits when we define new flags for EPOLL_*. Maybe
> > > this:
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * Flags for epoll_create1. O_CLOEXEC may be different bits, depending
> > > * on the CPU architecture. Reserve the known ones.
> > > */
> > > #define EPOLL_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
> > > #define EPOLL_RESERVED_FLAGS 0x00680000
> > > #define EPOLL_NSTIMEO 0x00000001
> >
> > Thanks. Good point, I'll add that in v3.
>
> You could also add a compile assert to check that the flag is reserved.
Like this?
/* Check the EPOLL_* constant for consistency. */
BUILD_BUG_ON(EPOLL_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(EPOLL_NSTIMEO & EPOLL_RESERVED_FLAGS);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-16 16:10 [PATCH v2] epoll: add nsec timeout support Willem de Bruijn
2020-11-16 16:12 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2020-11-16 16:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-16 17:00 ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-11-16 17:11 ` David Laight
2020-11-16 19:54 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2020-11-16 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-16 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-16 23:36 ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-11-16 23:51 ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-11-17 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-17 2:21 ` Willem de Bruijn
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