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charset=UTF-8"},"content":"Switch the arm and rearm callbacks for hrtimer based posix timers over to\nhrtimer_start_expires_user() so that already expired timers are not\nqueued. Hand the result back to the caller, which then queues the signal.\n\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \nCc: Anna-Maria Behnsen \nCc: Frederic Weisbecker \n---\n kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 11 ++++++-----\n 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)","diff":"--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c\n+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c\n@@ -293,8 +293,7 @@ static bool common_hrtimer_rearm(struct\n \tstruct hrtimer *timer = &timr->it.real.timer;\n \n \ttimr->it_overrun += hrtimer_forward_now(timer, timr->it_interval);\n-\thrtimer_restart(timer);\n-\treturn true;\n+\treturn hrtimer_start_expires_user(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);\n }\n \n static bool __posixtimer_deliver_signal(struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct k_itimer *timr)\n@@ -829,9 +828,11 @@ static bool common_hrtimer_arm(struct k_\n \t\texpires = ktime_add_safe(expires, hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer));\n \thrtimer_set_expires(timer, expires);\n \n-\tif (!sigev_none)\n-\t\thrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);\n-\treturn true;\n+\t/* For sigev_none pretend that the timer is queued */\n+\tif (sigev_none)\n+\t\treturn true;\n+\n+\treturn hrtimer_start_expires_user(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);\n }\n \n static int common_hrtimer_try_to_cancel(struct k_itimer *timr)\n","prefixes":["06/12"]}