The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:45 +02:00 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:09:53 +02:00 posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated. The timers are only removed from the task/process list heads but not modified in any other way. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819143801.747233612@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 0a426f4..742d4a4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ static void cleanup_timers_list(struct list_head *head) } /* - * Clean out CPU timers still ticking when a thread exited. The task - * pointer is cleared, and the expiry time is replaced with the residual - * time for later timer_gettime calls to return. + * Clean out CPU timers which are still armed when a thread exits. The + * timers are only removed from the list. No other updates are done. The + * corresponding posix timers are still accessible, but cannot be rearmed. + * * This must be called with the siglock held. */ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head)
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