From 91e5a2170e795989da9f90c18ba18984f23acc5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:02:22 +0000 Subject: hrtimer: Document hrtimer_forward[_now]() proper Document the calling context conditions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150413210035.178751779@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/hrtimer.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c index 76d4bd962b19..b1a74ee3e99a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c @@ -801,6 +801,14 @@ void unlock_hrtimer_base(const struct hrtimer *timer, unsigned long *flags) * * Forward the timer expiry so it will expire in the future. * Returns the number of overruns. + * + * Can be safely called from the callback function of @timer. If + * called from other contexts @timer must neither be enqueued nor + * running the callback and the caller needs to take care of + * serialization. + * + * Note: This only updates the timer expiry value and does not requeue + * the timer. */ u64 hrtimer_forward(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval) { -- cgit v1.2.3