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authorIdan Horowitz <idan.horowitz@gmail.com>2021-08-06 14:58:28 +0300
committerAndreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>2021-08-06 23:36:12 +0200
commitd40038a04f41bbf7943f9b185644a6d6daaceee6 (patch)
tree29c32ffc30181fdf58b55e36e6e1558e6395282b /Kernel
parent3ba2449058b08bcf93a58143d1166b6b1e453859 (diff)
downloadserenity-d40038a04f41bbf7943f9b185644a6d6daaceee6.zip
Kernel: Disable big process lock for sys$gettimeofday
This syscall doesn't touch any intra-process shared resources and only accesses the time via the atomic TimeManagement::now so there's no need to hold the big lock.
Diffstat (limited to 'Kernel')
-rw-r--r--Kernel/API/Syscall.h2
-rw-r--r--Kernel/Syscalls/clock.cpp2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Kernel/API/Syscall.h b/Kernel/API/Syscall.h
index 73c1fbeeee..1236c31595 100644
--- a/Kernel/API/Syscall.h
+++ b/Kernel/API/Syscall.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ enum class NeedsBigProcessLock {
S(munmap, NeedsBigProcessLock::Yes) \
S(get_dir_entries, NeedsBigProcessLock::Yes) \
S(getcwd, NeedsBigProcessLock::Yes) \
- S(gettimeofday, NeedsBigProcessLock::Yes) \
+ S(gettimeofday, NeedsBigProcessLock::No) \
S(gethostname, NeedsBigProcessLock::No) \
S(sethostname, NeedsBigProcessLock::No) \
S(chdir, NeedsBigProcessLock::Yes) \
diff --git a/Kernel/Syscalls/clock.cpp b/Kernel/Syscalls/clock.cpp
index 82e6779bcd..19b0dbd855 100644
--- a/Kernel/Syscalls/clock.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/Syscalls/clock.cpp
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ KResultOr<FlatPtr> Process::sys$adjtime(Userspace<const timeval*> user_delta, Us
KResultOr<FlatPtr> Process::sys$gettimeofday(Userspace<timeval*> user_tv)
{
- VERIFY_PROCESS_BIG_LOCK_ACQUIRED(this);
+ VERIFY_NO_PROCESS_BIG_LOCK(this);
REQUIRE_PROMISE(stdio);
auto tv = kgettimeofday().to_timeval();
if (!copy_to_user(user_tv, &tv))