Re: [patch 12/28] posix-timers: Convert clock_gettime() toclockid_to_kclock()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Richard Cochran wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:51:50PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/posix-timers.c
> > +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/posix-timers.c
> 
> > @@ -956,18 +955,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_settime, const clo
> >  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_gettime, const clockid_t, which_clock,
> >  		struct timespec __user *,tp)
> >  {
> > +	struct k_clock *kc = clockid_to_kclock(which_clock);
> >  	struct timespec kernel_tp;
> >  	int error;
> >  
> > -	if (invalid_clockid(which_clock))
> > +	if (!kc)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> > -	error = CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, clock_get,
> > -			       (which_clock, &kernel_tp));
> > +	if (!kc->clock_get)
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> 
> An unreadable clock?
> 
> I would think that we can require k_clocks to provide the read
> function. This could be checked and enforced in register_posix_clock().

Fair enough. Though, we should do that in a separate step.

Thanks,

	tglx
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