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Any comments?  If not we will commit this soon.

- Steve Reinhardt


On Oct. 30, 2015, 2:52 p.m., Tony Gutierrez wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 30, 2015, 2:52 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 11194:c55d82df60b4
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> syscall_emul: don't check host fd when allocating target fd
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> There's a well-meaning check in Process::allocFD() to return an invalid
> target fd (-1) if the incoming host fd is -1.  However, this means that
> emulated drivers, which want to allocate a target fd that doesn't
> correspond to a host fd, can't use -1 to indicate an intentionally
> invalid host fd.
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> It turns out the allocFD() check is redundant, as callers always test
> the host fd for validity before calling.  Also, callers never test the
> return value of allocFD() for validity, so even if the test failed,
> it would likely have the undesirable result of returning -1 to the
> target app as a file descriptor without setting errno.
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> Thus the check is pointless and is now getting in the way, so it seems
> we should just get rid of it.
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> Diffs
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>   src/sim/process.cc 4daf60db14d794e2344a6c86a93bdd8273bc5bb6 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3188/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Tony Gutierrez
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