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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-04-13 21:02:22 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-04-22 17:06:48 +0200
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hrtimer: Document hrtimer_forward[_now]() proper
Document the calling context conditions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150413210035.178751779@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 05f6df1..7770676 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -418,7 +418,22 @@ static inline int hrtimer_callback_running(struct hrtimer *timer)
extern u64
hrtimer_forward(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval);
-/* Forward a hrtimer so it expires after the hrtimer's current now */
+/**
+ * hrtimer_forward_now - forward the timer expiry so it expires after now
+ * @timer: hrtimer to forward
+ * @interval: the interval to forward
+ *
+ * Forward the timer expiry so it will expire after the current time
+ * of the hrtimer clock base. Returns the number of overruns.
+ *
+ * Can be safely called from the callback function of @timer. If
+ * called from other contexts @timer must neither be enqueued nor
+ * running the callback and the caller needs to take care of
+ * serialization.
+ *
+ * Note: This only updates the timer expiry value and does not requeue
+ * the timer.
+ */
static inline u64 hrtimer_forward_now(struct hrtimer *timer,
ktime_t interval)
{
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