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SubjectRe: [patch 20/24] perfmon: system calls interface

* eranian@googlemail.com <eranian@googlemail.com> wrote:

> +
> +/*
> + * unlike the other perfmon system calls, this one returns a file descriptor
> + * or a value < 0 in case of error, very much like open() or socket()
> + */
> +asmlinkage long sys_pfm_create(int flags, struct pfarg_sinfo __user *ureq)
> +{
> + struct pfm_context *new_ctx;
> + struct pfarg_sinfo sif;
> + int ret;
> +
> + PFM_DBG("flags=0x%x sif=%p", flags, ureq);
> +
> + if (perfmon_disabled)
> + return -ENOSYS;
> +
> + if (flags) {
> + PFM_DBG("no flags accepted yet");
> + return -EINVAL;

the canonical return code for non-yet-supported flags is not -EINVAL
but -ENOSYS.

Ingo


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