Re: [patch V2 06/10] timer: Restructure internal locking

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
> @@ -1651,17 +1651,14 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
>  /**
>   * __run_timers - run all expired timers (if any) on this CPU.
>   * @base: the timer vector to be processed.
> + *
> + * Caller must hold the base lock.
>   */
>  static inline void __run_timers(struct timer_base *base)
>  {
>       struct hlist_head heads[LVL_DEPTH];
>       int levels;
>  
> -     if (!time_after_eq(jiffies, base->clk))
> -             return;
> -
> -     spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
> -

        lockdep_assert_held(&base->lock);


Is so ever much more useful than a comment.

>       while (time_after_eq(jiffies, base->clk)) {
>  
>               levels = collect_expired_timers(base, heads);