Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - time build fix

[Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>]

On mercoledì 26 settembre 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:56 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:54:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:37 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > > Put back an implementation of timeval_to_ns in
> > > > arch/um/os-Linux/time.c.  tglx pointed out in his review of tickless
> > > > support that there was a perfectly good implementation of it in
> > > > linux/time.h.  The problem is that this is userspace code which can't
> > > > pull in kernel headers and there doesn't seem to be a libc version.
> > >
> > > Oops. Did not notice.
> >
> > It's a UML peculiarity...
> >
> > > Can't we move it into some header file which is accessible from
> > > everywhere ?
There is a way to do this without code duplication, but it is creating a 
non-inline function which calls the inline and calling the non-inline from 
userspace. It's done for a variety of other functions.

There is a tradeoff of speed vs code duplication - and if this function is not 
supposed to change and to need to be kept in sync, it could be copied. I 
conceptually hate this solution, but it can make some sense.

-- 
"Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake!
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

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