Re: [PATCH 1/2] alarmtimer: add functions for timerfd support

[John Stultz]

On 05/15/2013 02:38 PM, Todd Poynor wrote:
> Add functions needed for hooking up alarmtimer to timerfd:
>
> * alarm_restart: Similar to hrtimer_restart, restart an alarmtimer after
>    the expires time has already been updated (as with alarm_forward).
>
> * alarm_forward_now: Similar to hrtimer_forward_now, move the expires
>    time forward to an interval from the current time of the associated clock.
>
> * alarm_start_relative: Start an alarmtimer with an expires time relative to
>    the current time of the associated clock.
>
> * alarm_expires_remaining: Similar to hrtimer_expires_remaining, return the
>    amount of time remaining until alarm expiry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll queue this in my tree for 3.11, but I need to sort out which path 
the timerfd code needs to go upstream.

thanks
-john




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