Re: [PATCH 2/2] timer: Make sure TIMER_FLAG_MASK bits are free in allocated base

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 11 March 2014 15:56, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Now, I was looking to migrate away the timers first but I
> > obviously shouldn't migrate the pinned timers. One way out to
> > identify PINNED timers is to mark them PINNED with the flag bits,
> > which you wouldn't allow. Can you give some other idea with which
> > I can get this solved.

Sigh, I really hoped to find some time to finish the rework, but then
you get to debug bugs, solve the problem and are rewarded with a full
inbox. Lather, rinse, repeat...

Go ahead and make the timer base aligned with more room for some bits
to tweak. The new stuff will have a flags field where stuff like
pinned is stored.

Thanks,

	tglx


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