linux-kernel - [PATCHv6 08/36] posix-timers: Use clock_get_ktime() in common_timer

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Message-Id: <20190815163836.2927-9-dima@arista.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:38:08 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, criu@...nvz.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCHv6 08/36] posix-timers: Use clock_get_ktime() in common_timer_get()

From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>

Now, when the clock_get_ktime() callback exists, the suboptimal
timespec64-based conversion can be removed from common_timer_get().

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
---
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index 7cf1216050d1..1d41c6a41d63 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -665,7 +665,6 @@ void common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, struct itimerspec64 *cur_setting)
 {
 	const struct k_clock *kc = timr->kclock;
 	ktime_t now, remaining, iv;
-	struct timespec64 ts64;
 	bool sig_none;
 
 	sig_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;
@@ -683,12 +682,7 @@ void common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, struct itimerspec64 *cur_setting)
 			return;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * The timespec64 based conversion is suboptimal, but it's not
-	 * worth to implement yet another callback.
-	 */
-	kc->clock_get_timespec(timr->it_clock, &ts64);
-	now = timespec64_to_ktime(ts64);
+	now = kc->clock_get_ktime(timr->it_clock);
 
 	/*
 	 * When a requeue is pending or this is a SIGEV_NONE timer move the
-- 
2.22.0