On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:41:55 +0100
Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:23:31 -0700, Ben Widawsky <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > +   ret = i915_seqno_wait_timed(ring, seqno, true, &timeout);
> > +   if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS)
> > +           ret = -EINTR;
> Don't convert it here, pass ERESTARTSYS to the system call handler
> which decides how to handle it.
> 
> > +   else if (ret == -ETIME) {
> > +           ret = -EBUSY;
> 
> Why the semantic change? ETIME for timer timed out still seems
> appropriate.

I must be missing something. Can you point to me where the system call
handler converts these? The only reason for the change was to prevent
passing the internal return types to user space.

> 
> I think this whole interface is a stop-gap solution for pollable sync
> objects without a clear use case. Do we have a spec for a feature
> wishing to build upon this interface?

Good point. This is primarily for glClientWaitSync. I will update the
commit message with this information.

> -Chris
> 

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