linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 13/50] posix-cpu-timers: Do not arm SIGEV

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Message-ID: <87wmoy7mfe.fsf@somnus>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:03:33 +0200
From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...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 13/50] posix-cpu-timers: Do not arm SIGEV_NONE timers

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:

> There is no point in arming SIGEV_NONE timers as they never deliver a
> signal. timer_gettime() is handling the expiry time correctly and that's
> all SIGEV_NONE timers care about.
>
> Prevent arming them and remove the expiry handler code which just disarms
> them.
>

Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>