| Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:41:28 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch V2 07/38] posix-cpu-timers: Rename thread_group_cputimer() and make it static |
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > thread_group_cputimer() is a complete misnomer. The function does two things: > > - For arming process wide timers it makes sure that the atomic time > storage is up to date. If no cpu timer is armed yet, then the atomic > time storage is not updated by the scheduler for performance reasons. > > In that case a full summing up of all threads needs to be done and the > update needs to be enabled. > > - Samples the current time into the caller supplied storage. > > Rename it to thread_group_start_cputime(), make it static and fixup the > callsite. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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