Re: [PATCH 3/3] Consolidate send_sigqueue and send_group_sigqueue

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 02/28, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> That code dates from the original introduction of those two functions.
> I can't see any reason why those ever had swapped order of the two checks.
> I think it must have just been sloppy coding in the original work.
> 
> I'm not clear on how the already-queued case could ever happen.  Do we
> really need that check at all?  It shouldn't be possible for the timer to
> be firing when it's already queued, because it won't have been reloaded.
> It only reloads via do_schedule_next_timer after it's dequeued, or because
> a 1 return value said it never was queued.

This is true for the posix timers, but posix cpu timers case is different.
Note the run_posix_cpu_timers()->cpu_timer_fire().

Oleg.

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