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charset=UTF-8"},"content":"All alarmtimer users are converted to alarmtimer_start(). Remove the now\nunused interfaces.\n\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \nCc: John Stultz \nCc: Stephen Boyd \n---\n include/linux/alarmtimer.h | 3 ---\n kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 44 --------------------------------------------\n 2 files changed, 47 deletions(-)","diff":"--- a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h\n+++ b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h\n@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ static __always_inline ktime_t alarm_get\n void alarm_init(struct alarm *alarm, enum alarmtimer_type type,\n \t\tvoid (*function)(struct alarm *, ktime_t));\n bool alarmtimer_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t expires, bool relative);\n-void alarm_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start);\n-void alarm_start_relative(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start);\n-void alarm_restart(struct alarm *alarm);\n int alarm_try_to_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);\n int alarm_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);\n \n--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c\n+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c\n@@ -333,39 +333,6 @@ void alarm_init(struct alarm *alarm, enu\n EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_init);\n \n /**\n- * alarm_start - Sets an absolute alarm to fire\n- * @alarm: ptr to alarm to set\n- * @start: time to run the alarm\n- */\n-void alarm_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start)\n-{\n-\tstruct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];\n-\n-\tscoped_guard(spinlock_irqsave, &base->lock) {\n-\t\talarm->node.expires = start;\n-\t\talarmtimer_enqueue(base, alarm);\n-\t\thrtimer_start(&alarm->timer, alarm->node.expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);\n-\t}\n-\n-\ttrace_alarmtimer_start(alarm, base->get_ktime());\n-}\n-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start);\n-\n-/**\n- * alarm_start_relative - Sets a relative alarm to fire\n- * @alarm: ptr to alarm to set\n- * @start: time relative to now to run the alarm\n- */\n-void alarm_start_relative(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start)\n-{\n-\tstruct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];\n-\n-\tstart = ktime_add_safe(start, base->get_ktime());\n-\talarm_start(alarm, start);\n-}\n-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start_relative);\n-\n-/**\n * alarmtimer_start - Sets an alarm to fire\n * @alarm:\tPointer to alarm to set\n * @expires:\tExpiry time\n@@ -393,17 +360,6 @@ bool alarmtimer_start(struct alarm *alar\n }\n EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarmtimer_start);\n \n-void alarm_restart(struct alarm *alarm)\n-{\n-\tstruct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];\n-\n-\tguard(spinlock_irqsave)(&base->lock);\n-\thrtimer_set_expires(&alarm->timer, alarm->node.expires);\n-\thrtimer_restart(&alarm->timer);\n-\talarmtimer_enqueue(base, alarm);\n-}\n-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_restart);\n-\n /**\n * alarm_try_to_cancel - Tries to cancel an alarm timer\n * @alarm: ptr to alarm to be canceled\n","prefixes":["12/12"]}