[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 05/11]MARS: Kernel syscall add get workload by id

Kazunori Asayama asayama at sm.sony.co.jp
Tue Sep 16 16:43:27 EST 2008


Yuji Mano wrote:
> Kazunori Asayama wrote:
>> The static area 'requested_workload' can be overwritten by the next
>> workload_get_by_id call. Is it OK?
>>
> 
> In the current implementation this is not a problem.
> But of course the caller needs to be aware that the context ptr returned
> is only valid until the next call to that function. Currently the task
> policy uses this only so it can get the exit_code out from the context and
> does not keep the returned pointer around. 
> 
> I think this is fine for now because this syscall is available only between
> the kernel and the runtime policy internal implementation and not made
> available publicly.

OK, agreed.

> 
> If and when we decide to provide a custom policy module interface, this
> may need to change for more flexibility.

Or just we can say about this restriction in the reference manual.

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