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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:12:43 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	viresh.kumar@...aro.org, fweisbec@...il.com, hpa@...or.com,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:timers/core] futex: Remove bogus hrtimer_active() check

Commit-ID:  2e4b0d3fe88bc2618fd5d081ace338a70f8c23da
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2e4b0d3fe88bc2618fd5d081ace338a70f8c23da
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:09:13 +0000
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:06:51 +0200

futex: Remove bogus hrtimer_active() check

The check for hrtimer_active() after starting the timer is
pointless. If the timer is inactive it has expired already and
therefor the task pointer is already NULL.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.985825453@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 2579e40..720eacf 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2063,11 +2063,8 @@ static void futex_wait_queue_me(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *q,
 	queue_me(q, hb);
 
 	/* Arm the timer */
-	if (timeout) {
+	if (timeout)
 		hrtimer_start_expires(&timeout->timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
-		if (!hrtimer_active(&timeout->timer))
-			timeout->task = NULL;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have been removed from the hash list, then another task
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