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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 0c61f29ef5d5..79909a2ac3e4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -35,20 +35,17 @@ #include "timekeeping.h" #include "posix-timers.h" -/* - * Management arrays for POSIX timers. Timers are now kept in static hash table - * with 512 entries. - * Timer ids are allocated by local routine, which selects proper hash head by - * key, constructed from current->signal address and per signal struct counter. - * This keeps timer ids unique per process, but now they can intersect between - * processes. - */ +static struct kmem_cache *posix_timers_cache; /* - * Lets keep our timers in a slab cache :-) + * Timers are managed in a hash table for lockless lookup. The hash key is + * constructed from current::signal and the timer ID and the timer is + * matched against current::signal and the timer ID when walking the hash + * bucket list. + * + * This allows checkpoint/restore to reconstruct the exact timer IDs for + * a process. */ -static struct kmem_cache *posix_timers_cache; - static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(posix_timers_hashtable, 9); static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hash_lock); @@ -66,15 +63,6 @@ static const struct k_clock clock_realtime, clock_monotonic; #endif /* - * The timer ID is turned into a timer address by idr_find(). - * Verifying a valid ID consists of: - * - * a) checking that idr_find() returns other than -1. - * b) checking that the timer id matches the one in the timer itself. - * c) that the timer owner is in the callers thread group. - */ - -/* * CLOCKs: The POSIX standard calls for a couple of clocks and allows us * to implement others. This structure defines the various * clocks. |