From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hrtimers: fix HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ description
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:26:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EAAD01.8090000@debian.org> (raw)
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The description for HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ is backwards; "NO
SOFTIRQ" sounds a whole lot like it means it must not be run in a
softirq. :)
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diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 3bef961..b9f163d 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ enum hrtimer_restart {
* HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE: Callback may run in hardirq context
* HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_RESTART: Callback may run in hardirq context and
* does not restart the timer
- * HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ: Callback must run in softirq context
+ * HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ: Callback must run in hardirq context
* Special mode for tick emultation
*/
enum hrtimer_cb_mode {
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-04 11:27 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-04 11:26 Andres Salomon [this message]
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2007-03-04 12:47 [PATCH] hrtimers: fix HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ description Andres Salomon
2007-03-04 12:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
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