Re: posix-timers overrun broken?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 11:14:22 EST


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 14:36 +0100, Milan Svoboda wrote:
> But if the next interrupt arrives before function collect_signal is called
> to actually deliver the
> siginfo_t to userspace, the si.overrun is cleared in posix_timer_event and
> we have just forgotten
> one overrun...
>
> Am I wrong?

Yes. posix_timer_event() is only called when the timer expires the first
time. When the signal has been queued, the timer is not rearmed and the
overrun is calculated in the actual signal delivery path, which calls
do_schedule_next_timer().

tglx


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