[patch 04/44] posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-19T15:45:41Z

The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated. The timers are only removed
from the task/process list heads but not modified in any other way.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ static void cleanup_timers_list(struct l
}

/*
- * Clean out CPU timers still ticking when a thread exited. The task
- * pointer is cleared, and the expiry time is replaced with the residual
- * time for later timer_gettime calls to return.
+ * Clean out CPU timers which are still armed when a thread exits. The
+ * timers are only removed from the list. No other updates are done. The
+ * corresponding posix timers are still accessible, but cannot be rearmed.
+ *
* This must be called with the siglock held.
*/
static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head)