linux-kernel - [patch 04/44] posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment

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Message-Id: <20190819143801.747233612@linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:45 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patch 04/44] posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment

The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated. The timers are only removed
from the task/process list heads but not modified in any other way.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ static void cleanup_timers_list(struct l
 }
 
 /*
- * Clean out CPU timers still ticking when a thread exited.  The task
- * pointer is cleared, and the expiry time is replaced with the residual
- * time for later timer_gettime calls to return.
+ * Clean out CPU timers which are still armed when a thread exits. The
+ * timers are only removed from the list. No other updates are done. The
+ * corresponding posix timers are still accessible, but cannot be rearmed.
+ *
  * This must be called with the siglock held.
  */
 static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head)