Re: [patch] Make epoll_wait() handle negative timeouts as MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT ...

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Nish Aravamudan wrote:

On 9/23/05, Davide Libenzi <[email protected]> wrote:

As reported by Vadim Lobanov, epoll_wait() did not handle correctly
timeouts <0 (only the -1 case was MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT'd).


Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>

Arrgggh, this is as wrong as sys_poll() was before! :)

--- a/fs/eventpoll.c	2005-09-23 10:06:45.000000000 -0700
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c	2005-09-23 10:09:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@
	 * and the overflow condition. The passed timeout is in milliseconds,
	 * that why (t * HZ) / 1000.
	 */
-	jtimeout = timeout == -1 || timeout > (MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT - 1000) / HZ ?
+	jtimeout = timeout < 0 || timeout > (MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT - 1000) / HZ ?

@timeout is in miliseconds, per the comment, yes? If so, then

timeout [msecs] > MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT [jiffies] - 1000 [jiffies] / HZ
[jiffies / sec]

Sh*t, you're right! Reposting soon.


- Davide


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