Resolution of Issue 619 will require multiple steps, this part of the first step in that resolution: Every call to nxsem_wait_uninterruptible() must handle the return value from nxsem_wait_uninterruptible properly. This commit is only for those files under fs/inode. Utility functions under fs/incode were modified so the changes do extend to other fs/ sub-directories as well.
* Simplify EINTR/ECANCEL error handling
1. Add semaphore uninterruptible wait function
2 .Replace semaphore wait loop with a single uninterruptible wait
3. Replace all sem_xxx to nxsem_xxx
* Unify the void cast usage
1. Remove void cast for function because many place ignore the returned value witout cast
2. Replace void cast for variable with UNUSED macro
Squashed commit of the following:
configs/: The few configurations that formerly set CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS=0 should not default, rather they should set the number of descriptors to 3.
fs/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
tools/: Tools updates for changes to usage of CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS.
syscall/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
libs/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
include/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
drivers/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
Documentation/: Remove all references to CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
binfmt/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
arch/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
net/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
sched/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS == 0
sched/Kconfig: CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS may no longer to set to a value less than 3
configs/: Remove all settings for CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS < 3
This commit backs out most of commit b4747286b1. That change was added because sem_wait() would sometimes cause cancellation points inappropriated. But with these recent changes, nxsem_wait() is used instead and it is not a cancellation point.
In the OS, all calls to sem_wait() changed to nxsem_wait(). nxsem_wait() does not return errors via errno so each place where nxsem_wait() is now called must not examine the errno variable.
In all OS functions (not libraries), change sem_wait() to nxsem_wait(). This will prevent the OS from creating bogus cancellation points and from modifying the per-task errno variable.
sched/semaphore: Add the function nxsem_wait(). This is a new internal OS interface. It is functionally equivalent to sem_wait() except that (1) it is not a cancellation point, and (2) it does not set the per-thread errno value on return.
sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_post() which is identical to sem_post() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_post in the OS to nxsem_post().
sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_destroy() which is identical to sem_destroy() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_destroy() in the OS to nxsem_destroy().
libc/semaphore and sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_getprotocol() and nxsem_setprotocola which are identical to sem_getprotocol() and set_setprotocol() except that they never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_setprotocol in the OS to nxsem_setprotocol(). sem_getprotocol() was not used in the OS
Gregory Nutt