[PATCH 5/5] hrtimer: fixup comments

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 06:43:29 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Clean up the comments

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/hrtimer.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/hrtimer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -1141,9 +1141,9 @@ static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer
spin_lock(&cpu_base->lock);

/*
- * Note: We clear the CALLBACK bit after enqueue_hrtimer to avoid
- * reprogramming of the event hardware. This happens at the end of this
- * function anyway.
+ * Note: We clear the CALLBACK bit after enqueue_hrtimer and
+ * we do not reprogramm the event hardware. Happens either in
+ * hrtimer_start_range_ns() or in hrtimer_interrupt()
*/
if (restart != HRTIMER_NORESTART) {
BUG_ON(timer->state != HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK);
@@ -1540,14 +1540,12 @@ static void migrate_hrtimer_list(struct
__remove_hrtimer(timer, old_base, HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE, 0);
timer->base = new_base;
/*
- * Enqueue the timers on the new cpu, but do not reprogram
- * the timer as that would enable a deadlock between
- * hrtimer_enqueue_reprogramm() running the timer and us still
- * holding a nested base lock.
- *
- * Instead we tickle the hrtimer interrupt after the migration
- * is done, which will run all expired timers and re-programm
- * the timer device.
+ * Enqueue the timers on the new cpu. This does not
+ * reprogram the event device in case the timer
+ * expires before the earliest on this CPU, but we run
+ * hrtimer_interrupt after we migrated everything to
+ * sort out already expired timers and reprogram the
+ * event device.
*/
enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base);


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