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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-01-18 17:44:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-18 19:20:30 -0800
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[PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system call implementation
The following implementation of ppoll() and pselect() system calls depends on the architecture providing a TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the thread_info. These system calls have to change the signal mask during their operation, and signal handlers must be invoked using the new, temporary signal mask. The old signal mask must be restored either upon successful exit from the system call, or upon returning from the invoked signal handler if the system call is interrupted. We can't simply restore the original signal mask and return to userspace, since the restored signal mask may actually block the signal which interrupted the system call. The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag deals with this by causing the syscall exit path to trap into do_signal() just as TIF_SIGPENDING does, and by causing do_signal() to use the saved signal mask instead of the current signal mask when setting up the stack frame for the signal handler -- or by causing do_signal() to simply restore the saved signal mask in the case where there is no handler to be invoked. The first patch implements the sys_pselect() and sys_ppoll() system calls, which are present only if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined. That #ifdef should go away in time when all architectures have implemented it. The second patch implements TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for the PowerPC kernel (in the -mm tree), and the third patch then removes the arch-specific implementations of sys_rt_sigsuspend() and replaces them with generic versions using the same trick. The fourth and fifth patches, provided by David Howells, implement TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FR-V and i386 respectively, and the sixth patch adds the syscalls to the i386 syscall table. This patch: Add the pselect() and ppoll() system calls, providing core routines usable by the original select() and poll() system calls and also the new calls (with their semantics w.r.t timeouts). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/poll.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/poll.h b/include/linux/poll.h
index f6da702088f4..8e8f6098508a 100644
--- a/include/linux/poll.h
+++ b/include/linux/poll.h
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ void zero_fd_set(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *fdset)
memset(fdset, 0, FDS_BYTES(nr));
}
-extern int do_select(int n, fd_set_bits *fds, long *timeout);
+#define MAX_INT64_SECONDS (((s64)(~((u64)0)>>1)/HZ)-1)
+
+extern int do_select(int n, fd_set_bits *fds, s64 *timeout);
+extern int do_sys_poll(struct pollfd __user * ufds, unsigned int nfds,
+ s64 *timeout);
#endif /* KERNEL */