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Diffstat (limited to 'api/src/glfs-internal.h')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/api/src/glfs-internal.h b/api/src/glfs-internal.h index ec1d5579df7..f04557323a0 100644 --- a/api/src/glfs-internal.h +++ b/api/src/glfs-internal.h @@ -18,6 +18,26 @@ #define DEFAULT_REVAL_COUNT 1 +/* + * syncop_xxx() calls are executed in two ways, one is inside a synctask where + * the executing function will do 'swapcontext' and the other is without + * synctask where the executing thread is made to wait using pthread_cond_wait. + * Executing thread may change when syncop_xxx() is executed inside a synctask. + * This leads to errno_location change i.e. errno may give errno of + * non-executing thread. So errno is not touched inside a synctask execution. + * All gfapi calls are executed using the second way of executing syncop_xxx() + * where the executing thread waits using pthread_cond_wait so it is ok to set + * errno in these cases. The following macro makes syncop_xxx() behave just + * like a system call, where -1 is returned and errno is set when a failure + * occurs. + */ +#define DECODE_SYNCOP_ERR(ret) do { \ + if (ret < 0) { \ + errno = -ret; \ + ret = -1; \ + } \ + } while (0) + #define ESTALE_RETRY(ret,errno,reval,loc,label) do { \ if (ret == -1 && errno == ESTALE) { \ if (reval < DEFAULT_REVAL_COUNT) { \ |