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2014-11-05alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettimeRichard Larocque
commit e86fea764991e00a03ff1e56409ec9cacdbda4c9 upstream. Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at which it is scheduled to expire. If the timer has already expired or it is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero. This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX specifications. This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing applications. Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com> [jstultz: minor style tweak] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: Add definition of alarm_expires_remaining() from commit 6cffe00f7d4e ('alarmtimer: Add functions for timerfd support')] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionalityJohn Stultz
There's a number of edge cases when cancelling a alarm, so to be sure we accurately do so, introduce try_to_cancel, which returns proper failure errors if it cannot. Also modify cancel to spin until the alarm is properly disabled. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state trackingJohn Stultz
In order to allow for functionality like try_to_cancel, add more refined state tracking (similar to hrtimers). CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structureJohn Stultz
Now that periodic alarmtimers are managed by the handler function, remove the period value from the alarm structure and let the handlers manage the interval on their own. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add alarm_forward functionalityJohn Stultz
In order to avoid wasting time expiring and re-adding very high freq periodic alarmtimers, introduce alarm_forward() which is similar to hrtimer_forward and moves the timer to the next future expiration time and returns the number of overruns. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Change alarmtimer functions to return alarmtimer_restart valuesJohn Stultz
In order to properly fix the denial of service issue with high freq periodic alarm timers, we need to push the re-arming logic into the alarm timer handler, much as the hrtimer code does. This patch introduces alarmtimer_restart enum and changes the alarmtimer handler declarations to use it as a return value. Further, to ease following changes, it extends the alarmtimer handler functions to also take the time at expiration. No logic is yet modified. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-04-28timers: Improve alarmtimer comments and minor fixesJohn Stultz
This patch addresses a number of minor comment improvements and other minor issues from Thomas' review of the alarmtimers code. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-04-26timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interfaceJohn Stultz
This provides the in kernel interface and infrastructure for alarm-timers. Alarm-timers are a hybrid style timer, similar to hrtimers, but when the system is suspended, the RTC device is set to fire and wake the system for when the soonest alarm-timer expires. The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree. See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36 This in-kernel interface should be fairly compatible with the Android alarm driver in-kernel interface, but has the advantage of utilizing the new RTC timerqueue code instead of doing direct RTC manipulation. CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>