From e3f1d883740b09e5116d4d4e30a6a6987264a83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:28:23 +0100 Subject: hrtimer: fixup comments Clean up the comments Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/hrtimer.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/hrtimer.c') diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c index b68e98f4e4c1..aa024f2af78c 100644 --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -1143,9 +1143,9 @@ static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *timer) spin_lock(&cpu_base->lock); /* - * Note: We clear the CALLBACK bit after enqueue_hrtimer to avoid - * reprogramming of the event hardware. This happens at the end of this - * function anyway. + * Note: We clear the CALLBACK bit after enqueue_hrtimer and + * we do not reprogramm the event hardware. Happens either in + * hrtimer_start_range_ns() or in hrtimer_interrupt() */ if (restart != HRTIMER_NORESTART) { BUG_ON(timer->state != HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK); @@ -1514,14 +1514,12 @@ static void migrate_hrtimer_list(struct hrtimer_clock_base *old_base, __remove_hrtimer(timer, old_base, HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE, 0); timer->base = new_base; /* - * Enqueue the timers on the new cpu, but do not reprogram - * the timer as that would enable a deadlock between - * hrtimer_enqueue_reprogramm() running the timer and us still - * holding a nested base lock. - * - * Instead we tickle the hrtimer interrupt after the migration - * is done, which will run all expired timers and re-programm - * the timer device. + * Enqueue the timers on the new cpu. This does not + * reprogram the event device in case the timer + * expires before the earliest on this CPU, but we run + * hrtimer_interrupt after we migrated everything to + * sort out already expired timers and reprogram the + * event device. */ enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base); -- cgit v1.2.3