On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> On 06/08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > And I simply can not understand the complication in hrtimer_active(),
> > please help!
> 
> Sorry for another off-topic email, but I don't even understand the
> usage of hrtimer_active().
> 
> Say, do_nanosleep()
> 
>               hrtimer_start_expires(&t->timer, mode);
>               if (!hrtimer_active(&t->timer))
>                       t->task = NULL;

That's gone in tip/timers/core. 

> OTOH. perf_cpu_hrtimer_restart() does
> 
>       if (hrtimer_active(hr))
>               return;
> 
>       if (!hrtimer_callback_running(hr))
>               __hrtimer_start_range_ns(...);
> 
> why it can't simply do
> 
>       if (!hrtimer_active(hr)) // implies !hrtimer_callback_running()
>               __hrtimer_start_range_ns(...);

That's fixed as well.

Thanks,

        tglx
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