linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/13] Turn hrtimers into a range capable timer

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Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:56:10 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, drepper@...hat.com, tglx@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] Turn hrtimers into a range capable timer


hi Arjan,

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> This series is a follow-on the the nanosecond select/poll series.
> 
> The goal of this series is to introduce the capability into hrtimers 
> to deal with a "range" rather than a specific point in time. (Several 
> people discussed this recently, but we've been toying with the concept 
> for a while)

i've started doing some QA of this series in -tip.

it has a new -git based topic: tip/timers/range-hrtimers.

testing found this build failure:

In file included from include/linux/sched.h:87,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:9,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3:
include/linux/hrtimer.h: In function 'hrtimer_start_expires':
include/linux/hrtimer.h:359: error: implicit declaration of function 'hrtimer_get_expires'
include/linux/hrtimer.h:359: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of 'hrtimer_start'
4.69user 2.38system 0:13.19elapsed 53%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k

with the attached config.

	Ingo

View attachment "config" of type "text/plain" (59009 bytes)