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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/eventfd.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c index dba15fecf23e..d81b9f654086 100644 --- a/fs/eventfd.c +++ b/fs/eventfd.c @@ -46,20 +46,16 @@ struct eventfd_ctx { * value, and we signal this as overflow condition by returining a POLLERR * to poll(2). * - * Returns @n in case of success, a non-negative number lower than @n in case - * of overflow, or the following error codes: - * - * -EINVAL : The value of @n is negative. + * Returns the amount by which the counter was incrememnted. This will be less + * than @n if the counter has overflowed. */ -int eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, int n) +__u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n) { unsigned long flags; - if (n < 0) - return -EINVAL; spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags); if (ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count < n) - n = (int) (ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count); + n = ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count; ctx->count += n; if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->wqh)) wake_up_locked_poll(&ctx->wqh, POLLIN); |