Re: [PATCH] timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While going through the man-pages Michael prepared for the posix timer
> interface I realized that posix timers do expose the absolute time value
> through the use of TIMER_ABSTIME.
> 
> ---
> Subject: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Feb 11 11:30:27 CET 2009
> 
> The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the
> TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock
> every time we start it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to tip:timers/urgent, thanks Peter!

	Ingo
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