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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-08-19 16:31:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-08-20 22:09:53 +0200 |
| commit | 7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb (patch) | |
| tree | 6795d5b6b98535ad868d2ae400d45d4187dfa632 /kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | |
| parent | alarmtimers: Avoid rtc.h include (diff) | |
| download | linux-7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb.tar.xz linux-7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb.zip | |
posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment
The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated. The timers are only removed
from the task/process list heads but not modified in any other way.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819143801.747233612@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 0a426f4e3125..742d4a4e6f71 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ static void cleanup_timers_list(struct list_head *head) } /* - * Clean out CPU timers still ticking when a thread exited. The task - * pointer is cleared, and the expiry time is replaced with the residual - * time for later timer_gettime calls to return. + * Clean out CPU timers which are still armed when a thread exits. The + * timers are only removed from the list. No other updates are done. The + * corresponding posix timers are still accessible, but cannot be rearmed. + * * This must be called with the siglock held. */ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head) |