Commit 5e05ad7d authored Feb 04, 2008 by Davide Libenzi Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 05, 2008

timerfd: introduce a new hrtimer_forward_now() function

I think that advancing the timer against the timer's current "now" can be a
pretty common usage, so, w/out exposing hrtimer's internals, we add a new
hrtimer_forward_now() function.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent ed5d2cac

include/linux/hrtimer.h

+7 −0

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		@@ -304,6 +304,13 @@ static inline int hrtimer_is_queued(struct hrtimer *timer)
		extern unsigned long
		hrtimer_forward(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval);

		/* Forward a hrtimer so it expires after the hrtimer's current now */
		static inline unsigned long hrtimer_forward_now(struct hrtimer *timer,
		ktime_t interval)
		{
		return hrtimer_forward(timer, timer->base->get_time(), interval);
		}

		/* Precise sleep: */
		extern long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp,
		struct timespec *rmtp,

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