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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-11-01 11:11:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-11-01 11:11:07 +0100 |
| commit | e87a3dd33eab30b4db539500064a9584867e4f2c (patch) | |
| tree | 2f7ad16e46ae30518ff63bb5391b63f7f7cc74dd /include/asm-generic/syscall.h | |
| parent | b14f5de731ae657d498d18d713c6431bfbeefb4b (diff) | |
| parent | 3d00941371a765779c4e3509214c7e5793cce1fe (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/syscall.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/syscall.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h index ea8087b55ff..5c122ae6bfa 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * Access to user system call parameters and results * - * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. + * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. * * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, * modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions @@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ struct pt_regs; * If @task is not executing a system call, i.e. it's blocked * inside the kernel for a fault or signal, returns -1. * + * Note this returns int even on 64-bit machines. Only 32 bits of + * system call number can be meaningful. If the actual arch value + * is 64 bits, this truncates to 32 bits so 0xffffffff means -1. + * * It's only valid to call this when @task is known to be blocked. */ -long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs); +int syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs); /** * syscall_rollback - roll back registers after an aborted system call |