[yocto] [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix a bug of wrong return erorr.

[Wang Liming]

On 08/24/11 21:40, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 11-08-23 10:45 PM, Liming Wang wrote:
>> __vdso_clock_gettime should fall back to call vdso_fallback_gettime
>> function
>> if no clockid is selected, not just return error.
>
> At a glance, this seems reasonable to me .. and then I
> looked a bit more. This is in fact introduced by lttng and
> the ENIVAL does look wrong. It's worth checking out the
> latest lttng to make sure that this error isn't there as
It's still in the latest lttng patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/compudj/linux-2.6-lttng.git;a=blobdiff;f=arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c;h=7bc481508d004c4e8dd0f5cff51aeeac8bfd0766;hp=ee55754cc3c5ff378b76f2065a610b72e757f088;hb=98052998fe2aee4423dc24fccfe991b305969656;hpb=b6c4d0eaca66305984cf1ce6bc9d49a3244b412b
> well. Our 3.0 kernel won't have this bug yet, but I'll
Yes, our 3.0 kernel hasn't this bug.

> keep an eye out for this during any lttng work.
>
> I'll merge this into the 2.6.37 tree shortly.
Please replace subject "erorr" with "error" for my fault.

Liming Wang
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liming Wang<liming.wang at windriver.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 2 --
>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
>> b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
>> index 7bc4815..2365a5b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
>> @@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ notrace int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock,
>> struct timespec *ts)
>> return do_trace_clock(ts);
>> case CLOCK_TRACE_FREQ:
>> return do_trace_clock_freq(ts);
>> - default:
>> - return -EINVAL;
>> }
>> return vdso_fallback_gettime(clock, ts);
>> }
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