linux-kernel - Re: [patch 10/45] posix-cpu-timers: Use @now instead of @val for clarity

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Message-ID: <ZJqxpBh3ppSkugd9@lothringen>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:53:40 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/45] posix-cpu-timers: Use @now instead of @val for
 clarity

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 04:37:34PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> posix_cpu_timer_set() uses @val as variable for the current time. That's
> confusing at best.
> 
> Use @now as anywhere else and rewrite the confusing comment about clock
> sampling.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

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