Re: [PATCH] fix __SI_CODE

From: george anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 22:37:01 EST


Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> This small patch is extracted from George Anzinger's High-res-timer
> patches. Even if George's patches do not go in, this patch is necessary
> to fix up something I missed when I consolidated the siginfo stuff.

Yeah, that has been there for a long time. The fix to
nano_sleep should also go in. I am sure there are others...

You might try this on a 2.5.4x system:

time sleep 60

Now remember the standard says NO timer should finish
early. On most boxes this will sleep less than 60 seconds.

Bad Bad timer :)

-g
>
> Thanks, George.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
>
> diff -ruN 2.5.41-1.715/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h 2.5.41-1.715-si.2/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
> --- 2.5.41-1.715/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h 2002-06-09 16:12:33.000000000 +1000
> +++ 2.5.41-1.715-si.2/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h 2002-10-10 12:26:46.000000000 +1000
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
> #define __SI_FAULT (3 << 16)
> #define __SI_CHLD (4 << 16)
> #define __SI_RT (5 << 16)
> -#define __SI_CODE(T,N) ((T) << 16 | ((N) & 0xffff))
> +#define __SI_CODE(T,N) ((T) | ((N) & 0xffff))
> #else
> #define __SI_KILL 0
> #define __SI_TIMER 0
> -
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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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