From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758393AbXIXUWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:22:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754702AbXIXUWj (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:22:39 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:32786 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753192AbXIXUWj (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:22:39 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org From: Davide Libenzi To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Michael Kerrisk , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:22:37 -0700 Subject: [patch 1/4] new timerfd API v2 - introduce a new hrtimer_forward_now() function MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I think that advancing the timer against the timer's current "now" can be a pretty common usage, so, w/out exposing hrtimer's internals, we add a new hrtimer_forward_now() function. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide --- include/linux/hrtimer.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/hrtimer.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/linux/hrtimer.h 2007-09-24 12:27:20.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/hrtimer.h 2007-09-24 12:29:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -298,6 +298,13 @@ extern unsigned long hrtimer_forward(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval); +/* Forward a hrtimer so it expires after the hrtimer's current now */ +static inline unsigned long hrtimer_forward_now(struct hrtimer *timer, + ktime_t interval) +{ + return hrtimer_forward(timer, timer->base->get_time(), interval); +} + /* Precise sleep: */ extern long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp,