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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
commit9efe21cb82b5dbe3b0b2ae4de4eccc64ecb94e95 (patch)
tree7ff8833745d2f268f897f6fa4a27263b4a572245 /include/linux/eventfd.h
parentde18836e447c2dc30120c0919b8db8ddc0401cc4 (diff)
parent0221c81b1b8eb0cbb6b30a0ced52ead32d2b4e4c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into irq/threaded
Conflicts: include/linux/irq.h kernel/irq/handle.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/eventfd.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/eventfd.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/eventfd.h b/include/linux/eventfd.h
index a667637b54e3..f45a8ae5f828 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventfd.h
@@ -13,10 +13,20 @@
/* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
-/* Flags for eventfd2. */
+/*
+ * CAREFUL: Check include/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
+ * new flags, since they might collide with O_* ones. We want
+ * to re-use O_* flags that couldn't possibly have a meaning
+ * from eventfd, in order to leave a free define-space for
+ * shared O_* flags.
+ */
+#define EFD_SEMAPHORE (1 << 0)
#define EFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
#define EFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
+#define EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK)
+#define EFD_FLAGS_SET (EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS | EFD_SEMAPHORE)
+
struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd);
int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, int n);