The patch titled cpu-timers: return correct previous timer reload value has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cpu-timers-return-correct-previous-timer-reload-value.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cpu-timers: return correct previous timer reload value From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> According POSIX we need to correctly set old timer it_interval value when user request that in timer_settime(). Tested using below program. #include <sys/time.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { struct sigaction act; struct sigevent evt = { }; timer_t tid; struct itimerspec spec, u_spec, k_spec; evt.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL; evt.sigev_signo = SIGPROF; assert(timer_create(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &evt, &tid) == 0); spec.it_value.tv_sec = 1; spec.it_value.tv_nsec = 2; spec.it_interval.tv_sec = 3; spec.it_interval.tv_nsec = 4; u_spec = spec; assert(timer_settime(tid, 0, &spec, NULL) == 0); spec.it_value.tv_sec = 5; spec.it_value.tv_nsec = 6; spec.it_interval.tv_sec = 7; spec.it_interval.tv_nsec = 8; assert(timer_settime(tid, 0, &spec, &k_spec) == 0); #define PRT(val) printf(#val ":\t%d/%d\n", (int) u_spec.val, (int) k_spec.val) PRT(it_value.tv_sec); PRT(it_value.tv_nsec); PRT(it_interval.tv_sec); PRT(it_interval.tv_nsec); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~cpu-timers-return-correct-previous-timer-reload-value kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~cpu-timers-return-correct-previous-timer-reload-value +++ a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer struct itimerspec *new, struct itimerspec *old) { struct task_struct *p = timer->it.cpu.task; - union cpu_time_count old_expires, new_expires, val; + union cpu_time_count old_expires, new_expires, old_incr, val; int ret; if (unlikely(p == NULL)) { @@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled()); ret = 0; + old_incr = timer->it.cpu.incr; spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock); old_expires = timer->it.cpu.expires; if (unlikely(timer->it.cpu.firing)) { @@ -821,7 +822,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer out: if (old) { sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock, - timer->it.cpu.incr, &old->it_interval); + old_incr, &old->it_interval); } return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are posix-cpu-timers-reset-expire-cache-when-no-timer-is-running.patch cpu-timers-simplify-rlimit_cpu-handling.patch cpu-timers-cleanup-arm_timer.patch cpu-timers-return-correct-previous-timer-reload-value.patch cpu-timers-change-sigev_none-timer-implementation.patch cpu-timers-assure-to-not-iterate-over-all-threads-in-fastpath_timer_check.patch cpu-timers-optimize-run_posix_cpu_timers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html