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[4.14,42/43] futex: Update comments and docs about return values of arch futex code

Message ID 20190702080126.094515764@linuxfoundation.org
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman July 2, 2019, 8:02 a.m. UTC 
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>


commit 427503519739e779c0db8afe876c1b33f3ac60ae upstream.

The architecture implementations of 'arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()' and
'futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()' are permitted to return only -EFAULT,
-EAGAIN or -ENOSYS in the case of failure.

Update the comments in the asm-generic/ implementation and also a stray
reference in the robust futex documentation.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


---
 Documentation/robust-futexes.txt |    3 +--
 include/asm-generic/futex.h      |    8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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--- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
@@ -218,5 +218,4 @@  All other architectures should build jus
 the new syscalls yet.
 
 Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
-inline function before writing up the syscalls (that function returns
--ENOSYS right now).
+inline function before writing up the syscalls.
--- a/include/asm-generic/futex.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/futex.h
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ 
  *
  * Return:
  * 0 - On success
- * <0 - On error
+ * -EFAULT - User access resulted in a page fault
+ * -EAGAIN - Atomic operation was unable to complete due to contention
+ * -ENOSYS - Operation not supported
  */
 static inline int
 arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, u32 oparg, int *oval, u32 __user *uaddr)
@@ -85,7 +87,9 @@  out_pagefault_enable:
  *
  * Return:
  * 0 - On success
- * <0 - On error
+ * -EFAULT - User access resulted in a page fault
+ * -EAGAIN - Atomic operation was unable to complete due to contention
+ * -ENOSYS - Function not implemented (only if !HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG)
  */
 static inline int
 futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,