linux-kernel - [patch V2 15/50] posix-cpu-timers: Remove incorrect comment in posix_cpu_timer

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Message-ID: <20240410165551.881137309@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:46:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
 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: [patch V2 15/50] posix-cpu-timers: Remove incorrect comment in
 posix_cpu_timer_set()

A leftover from historical code which describes fiction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -689,13 +689,8 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_
 			__posix_cpu_timer_get(timer, old, now);
 	}
 
+	/* Retry if the timer expiry is running concurrently */
 	if (unlikely(ret)) {
-		/*
-		 * We are colliding with the timer actually firing.
-		 * Punt after filling in the timer's old value, and
-		 * disable this firing since we are already reporting
-		 * it as an overrun (thanks to bump_cpu_timer above).
-		 */
 		unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 		goto out;
 	}