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[RFC,v3,net-next,03/18] posix-timers: Add CLOCKID_INVALID mask

Message ID 20180307011230.24001-4-jesus.sanchez-palencia@intel.com
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series Time based packet transmission | expand

Commit Message

Jesus Sanchez-Palencia March 7, 2018, 1:12 a.m. UTC
posix-timers.h states that a clockid_t value is invalid if bits 0, 1 and
2 are all set. Add a mask that can be safely used elsewhere even if this
implicit rule's implementation is changed.

This is done in preparation for the upcoming time based transmission
patchset.

Signed-off-by: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@intel.com>
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 include/linux/posix-timers.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/posix-timers.h b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
index c85704fcdbd2..0ba677cc8da6 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@  struct cpu_timer_list {
  *
  * A clockid is invalid if bits 2, 1, and 0 are all set.
  */
+#define CLOCKID_INVALID			GENMASK(2, 0)
 #define CPUCLOCK_PID(clock)		((pid_t) ~((clock) >> 3))
 #define CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(clock) \
 	(((clock) & (clockid_t) CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD_MASK) != 0)