linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 30/38] posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit

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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:19:08 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 30/38] posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard
 RTTIME limit

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The RTIME limit expiry code does not check the hard RTTIME limit for
> INFINITY, i.e. being disabled.  Add it.
> 
> While this could be considered an ABI breakage if something would depend on
> this behaviour. Though it's highly unlikely to have an effect because
> RLIM_INFINITY is at minimum INT_MAX and the RTTIME limit is in seconds, so
> the timer would fire after ~68 years.
> 
> Adding this obvious correct limit check also allows further consolidation
> of that code and is a prerequisite for cleaning up the 0 based checks and
> the rlimit setter code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>