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authorAnna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>2017-12-21 11:41:34 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-01-16 02:35:45 +0100
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hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_start[_range_ns]() function descriptions
The hrtimer_start[_range_ns]() functions start a timer reliably on this CPU only when HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED is set. Furthermore the HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED mode is not considered when a hrtimer is initialized. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: keescook@chromium.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221104205.7269-6-anna-maria@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/hrtimer.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index f2de328bb8d5..fd08729de5d2 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -924,12 +924,12 @@ static inline ktime_t hrtimer_update_lowres(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
}
/**
- * hrtimer_start_range_ns - (re)start an hrtimer on the current CPU
+ * hrtimer_start_range_ns - (re)start an hrtimer
* @timer: the timer to be added
* @tim: expiry time
* @delta_ns: "slack" range for the timer
- * @mode: expiry mode: absolute (HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) or
- * relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
+ * @mode: timer mode: absolute (HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) or
+ * relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL), and pinned (HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED)
*/
void hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
u64 delta_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
@@ -1107,7 +1107,8 @@ static void __hrtimer_init(struct hrtimer *timer, clockid_t clock_id,
* hrtimer_init - initialize a timer to the given clock
* @timer: the timer to be initialized
* @clock_id: the clock to be used
- * @mode: timer mode abs/rel
+ * @mode: timer mode: absolute (HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) or
+ * relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL); pinned is not considered here!
*/
void hrtimer_init(struct hrtimer *timer, clockid_t clock_id,
enum hrtimer_mode mode)