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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:52:40 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> While going through the man-pages Michael prepared for the posix timer
> interface I realized that posix timers do expose the absolute time value
> through the use of TIMER_ABSTIME.
> 
> ---
> Subject: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Wed Feb 11 11:30:27 CET 2009
> 
> The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the
> TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock
> every time we start it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Applied to tip:timers/urgent, thanks Peter!

	Ingo