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diff --git a/include/linux/timerfd.h b/include/linux/timerfd.h
index 86cb050..2d07929 100644
--- a/include/linux/timerfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/timerfd.h
@@ -11,13 +11,21 @@
/* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
-/* Flags for timerfd_settime. */
+/*
+ * CAREFUL: Check include/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
+ * new flags, since they might collide with O_* ones. We want
+ * to re-use O_* flags that couldn't possibly have a meaning
+ * from eventfd, in order to leave a free define-space for
+ * shared O_* flags.
+ */
#define TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME (1 << 0)
-
-/* Flags for timerfd_create. */
#define TFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
#define TFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
+#define TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS (TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK)
+/* Flags for timerfd_create. */
+#define TFD_CREATE_FLAGS TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS
+/* Flags for timerfd_settime. */
+#define TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME
#endif /* _LINUX_TIMERFD_H */
-
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