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[v6,03/21] timer: Add comment to get_next_timer_interrupt() description

Message ID 20230510072817.116056-4-anna-maria@linutronix.de
State New
Headers
Series timer: Move from a push remote at enqueue to a pull at expiry model |

Commit Message

Anna-Maria Behnsen May 10, 2023, 7:27 a.m. UTC 
  get_next_timer_interrupt() does more than simply getting the next timer
interrupt. The timer bases are forwarded and also marked as idle whenever
possible.

To get not confused, add a comment to function description.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
---
v6: s/handling/marking

v5: New patch, which adds only a comment to get_next_timer_interrupt()
instead of changing the function name
---
 kernel/time/timer.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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Patch

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 6e251e3cf659..0699fd14d00a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1912,6 +1912,10 @@  static u64 cmp_next_hrtimer_event(u64 basem, u64 expires)
  * @basej:	base time jiffies
  * @basem:	base time clock monotonic
  *
+ * If required, base->clk is forwarded and base is also marked as
+ * idle. Idle marking of timer bases is allowed only to be done by CPU
+ * itself.
+ *
  * Returns the tick aligned clock monotonic time of the next pending
  * timer or KTIME_MAX if no timer is pending.
  */