From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752841Ab1DTGkw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:40:52 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:62232 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752325Ab1DTGku (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:40:50 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: John Stultz Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Posix Alarm Timers Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:40:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.38+; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arve =?utf-8?q?Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= , Thomas Gleixner , Alessandro Zummo References: <1303257510-15054-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1303257510-15054-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104200840.33671.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:fvFJuO695eKgMFLK5OFgJSAzsnbE/BG589aN7txa8sz G2MIjR2/XNnLKCmYkWwiwhtgpI+0pX82OsAMMwNay9IV60rN7Q 4omdmc3lwQObqzCZSkEmet6uim7QD0HeMfl3Ljdq0XItq3HiTF qqKKga0vSSKmVcImKdnO5TqCzqnivsVAVY+z9hu2CIOEDUzIEg dQnjcClC+qEVn3EegdLtw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 20 April 2011 01:58:26 John Stultz wrote: > > Just wanted to send out my current Posix Alarm Timers queue for > comment and review in the hopes of getting it into shape for > 2.6.40. > > Some background on the patches can be found here: > https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/ > > New in this series: > * Added timekeeping_inject_sleeptime, which corrects CLOCK_BOOTTIME > for arches that don't support read_persistent_clock(). > * I've added a CAP_WAKE_ALARM capability to limit random applications > from setting alarms in the last patch. This probably needs some > careful review as it allows clock_nanosleep and timer_create to > return -EPERM, which is new behavior. > I haven't looked at these patches much before, so I've done a brief review now. They look very nice, and I can't find anything to complain about. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann