[patch 05/12] posix-timers: Handle the timer_[re]arm() return value

Thomas Gleixner
2026-04-07T08:54:41Z

The [re]arm callbacks will return true when the timer was queued and false
if it was already expired at enqueue time.

In both cases the call sites can trivially queue the signal right there,
when the timer was already expired.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
---
kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static bool common_hrtimer_rearm(struct

static bool __posixtimer_deliver_signal(struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct k_itimer *timr)
{
+ bool queued;
+
guard(spinlock)(&timr->it_lock);

/*
@@ -312,12 +314,18 @@ static bool __posixtimer_deliver_signal(
if (!timr->it_interval || WARN_ON_ONCE(timr->it_status != POSIX_TIMER_REQUEUE_PENDING))
return true;

- timr->kclock->timer_rearm(timr);
- timr->it_status = POSIX_TIMER_ARMED;
+ /* timer_rearm() updates timr::it_overrun */
+ queued = timr->kclock->timer_rearm(timr);
+
timr->it_overrun_last = timr->it_overrun;
timr->it_overrun = -1LL;
++timr->it_signal_seq;
info->si_overrun = timer_overrun_to_int(timr);
+
+ if (queued)
+ timr->it_status = POSIX_TIMER_ARMED;
+ else
+ posix_timer_queue_signal(timr);
return true;
}

@@ -905,9 +913,13 @@ int common_timer_set(struct k_itimer *ti
expires = timens_ktime_to_host(timr->it_clock, expires);
sigev_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;

- kc->timer_arm(timr, expires, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME, sigev_none);
- if (!sigev_none)
- timr->it_status = POSIX_TIMER_ARMED;
+ if (kc->timer_arm(timr, expires, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME, sigev_none)) {
+ if (!sigev_none)
+ timr->it_status = POSIX_TIMER_ARMED;
+ } else {
+ /* Timer was already expired, queue the signal */
+ posix_timer_queue_signal(timr);
+ }
return 0;
}