This patch splits out the guts of the timer_gettime syscall and changes the timer_gettime syscall implementation to prepare the converting to 64bit methods for the timer_gettime syscall function in posix-timers.c file.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linaro.org --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 96efe1d..d00f8ed 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -795,11 +795,8 @@ common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, struct itimerspec *cur_setting) cur_setting->it_value = ktime_to_timespec(remaining); }

-/* Get the time remaining on a POSIX.1b interval timer. */ -SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timer_gettime, timer_t, timer_id, - struct itimerspec __user *, setting) +static int __timer_gettime(timer_t timer_id, struct itimerspec *cur_setting) { - struct itimerspec cur_setting; struct k_itimer *timr; struct k_clock *kc; unsigned long flags; @@ -813,9 +810,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timer_gettime, timer_t, timer_id, if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!kc || !kc->timer_get)) ret = -EINVAL; else - kc->timer_get(timr, &cur_setting); + kc->timer_get(timr, cur_setting);

unlock_timer(timr, flags); + return ret; +} + +/* Get the time remaining on a POSIX.1b interval timer. */ +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timer_gettime, timer_t, timer_id, + struct itimerspec __user *, setting) +{ + struct itimerspec cur_setting; + int ret = __timer_gettime(timer_id, &cur_setting);

if (!ret && copy_to_user(setting, &cur_setting, sizeof (cur_setting))) return -EFAULT;