linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 08/50] posix-cpu-timers: Save interval only for armed timers

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:58 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, LKML
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: 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: Re: [patch V2 08/50] posix-cpu-timers: Save interval only for armed
 timers

On Thu, Apr 11 2024 at 16:25, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:
>
>> There is no point to return the interval for timers which have been
>> disarmed.
>>
> common_timer_get() returns/updates interval unconditionally - so
> behavior then differs.

Good catch! We really want to make this consistent.