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SubjectRe: [PATCH] timers: Fix up get_target_base() to use old base properly
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 09:29:44PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> get_target_base() in the timer code is not using the "base" parameter
> at all. My gut feeling is that instead of removing that extra
> parameter, what we really want to do is "return the old base if it
> does not suite for a new one".

Ping?

Note that as reference hrtimer is using the same logic as in this
patch.

>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CC: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> CC: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> CC: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
> index 343c7ba33b1c..6ff6ffd2c719 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
> @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ get_target_base(struct timer_base *base, unsigned tflags)
> !(tflags & TIMER_PINNED))
> return get_timer_cpu_base(tflags, get_nohz_timer_target());
> #endif
> - return get_timer_this_cpu_base(tflags);
> + return base;
> }
>
> static inline void forward_timer_base(struct timer_base *base)
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Regards,

--
Peter Xu

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