[PATCH] common compat_sys_timer_create
The comment in compat.c is wrong, every architecture provides a
get_compat_sigevent() for the IPC compat code already.
This basically moves the x86_64 version to common code and removes all the
others.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index 102296e..256e5d9 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -514,6 +514,24 @@
return 0;
}
+long compat_sys_timer_create(clockid_t which_clock,
+ struct compat_sigevent __user *timer_event_spec,
+ timer_t __user *created_timer_id)
+{
+ struct sigevent __user *event = NULL;
+
+ if (timer_event_spec) {
+ struct sigevent kevent;
+
+ event = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(*event));
+ if (get_compat_sigevent(&kevent, timer_event_spec) ||
+ copy_to_user(event, &kevent, sizeof(*event)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
+ return sys_timer_create(which_clock, event, created_timer_id);
+}
+
long compat_sys_timer_settime(timer_t timer_id, int flags,
struct compat_itimerspec __user *new,
struct compat_itimerspec __user *old)
@@ -649,8 +667,6 @@
? -EFAULT : 0;
}
-/* timer_create is architecture specific because it needs sigevent conversion */
-
long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
unsigned long bitmap_size)
{
