linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] sched/deadline: Clarify nanoseconds in uapi

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Message-Id: <20240813144348.1180344-3-christian.loehle@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:43:46 +0100
From: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>
To: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rafael@...nel.org
Cc: vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	qyousef@...alina.io,
	peterz@...radead.org,
	daniel.lezcano@...aro.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	juri.lelli@...hat.com,
	dietmar.eggemann@....com,
	Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] sched/deadline: Clarify nanoseconds in uapi

Specify the time values of the deadline parameters of deadline,
runtime, and period as being in nanoseconds explicitly as they always
have been.

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
index 90662385689b..bf6e9ae031c1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@
  *
  * This is reflected by the following fields of the sched_attr structure:
  *
- *  @sched_deadline	representative of the task's deadline
- *  @sched_runtime	representative of the task's runtime
- *  @sched_period	representative of the task's period
+ *  @sched_deadline	representative of the task's deadline in nanoseconds
+ *  @sched_runtime	representative of the task's runtime in nanoseconds
+ *  @sched_period	representative of the task's period in nanoseconds
  *
  * Given this task model, there are a multiplicity of scheduling algorithms
  * and policies, that can be used to ensure all the tasks will make their
-- 
2.34.1