linux-kernel - Re: [patch 42/44] posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908192229380.4008@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:29:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 42/44] posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct
 posix_cputimers

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > Put it where it belongs and cleanup the ifdeffery in fork completely.
> 
> s/cleanup
>  /clean up
> 
> >   * posix_cputimers - Container for posix CPU timer related data
> >   * @expiries:		Earliest-expiration cache array based
> > + * @timers_active:	Timers are queued.
> > + * @expiry_active:	Timer expiry is active. Used for
> > + *			process wide timers to avoid multiple
> > + *			trying to handle expiry
> 
> 'to avoid multiple trying to handle expiry'?
> 
> Should this be: 'to avoid multiple tasks trying to handle expiry'?

Yup.