linux-kernel - Re: [patch V5 07/26] posix-timers: Add proper state tracking

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Message-ID: <ZxZU5ViCYadY6eOE@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:19:33 +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 V5 07/26] posix-timers: Add proper state tracking

Le Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> Right now the state tracking is done by two struct members:
> 
>  - it_active:
>      A boolean which tracks armed/disarmed state
> 
>  - it_signal_seq:
>      A sequence counter which is used to invalidate settings
>      and prevent rearming
> 
> Replace it_active with it_status and keep properly track about the states
> in one place.
> 
> This allows to reuse it_signal_seq to track reprogramming, disarm and

Did you mean it_status here?

> delete operations in order to drop signals which are related to the state
> previous of those operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Anyway:

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