On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:52:05PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:31:00PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
- I was also aiming for user pointers to be not touched by timer
specific code as it can get messy if not handled properly with 2 compat time_t versions.
So have one helper that deals with all copyout and have it used by all of them. IMO all that code should treat userland representation as completely opaque. Just switch nanosleep_copyout() to take timespec64 instead of timespec (for kernel-side object) and that'll do it, wouldn't it?
Yes, that would work. If that is preferred, then I will just do that and rebase the patches.
Please, do. Note that quite a few things in that series won't be needed anymore (e.g. compat syscalls are already moved to native ones, etc.).
Might make sense to take it to #kernel - lower latency that way...