linux-kernel - Re: [patch 17/28] posix-timers: Convert timer_gettime() to clockid_to

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Message-ID: <1296595396.3336.61.camel@work-vm>
Date:	Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:23:16 -0800
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@...cron.at>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 17/28] posix-timers: Convert timer_gettime() to
 clockid_to_kclock()

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 13:52 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> plain text document attachment (posix-timers-convert-timer-get.patch)
> Set the common function for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME kclocks
> and use the new decoding function. No need to check for the return
> value of it. If we have data corruption in the timer, we explode
> somewhere else anyway. Also all kclocks which implement timer_create()
> need to provide timer_gettime() as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@...cron.at>
[snip]
> -	CLOCK_DISPATCH(timr->it_clock, timer_get, (timr, &cur_setting));
> +	kc = clockid_to_kclock(timr->it_clock);
> +	kc->timer_get(timr, &cur_setting);

Null check again.

thanks
-john

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