alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime
authorRichard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com>
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:31:03 +0000 (18:31 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:27:43 +0000 (20:27 +0000)
commita1b01afa4324d35da3aaef069ac7220901e0e350
treed5d75f7823554976657f5313f173c666b8de8124
parentd8aaaebbe614171cc12a3fe69a79315ac4e42d98
alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime

commit e86fea764991e00a03ff1e56409ec9cacdbda4c9 upstream.

Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at
which it is scheduled to expire.  If the timer has already expired or it
is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero.

This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX
specifications.

This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing
applications.  Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com>
[jstultz: minor style tweak]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: Add definition of alarm_expires_remaining() from
 commit 6cffe00f7d4e ('alarmtimer: Add functions for timerfd support')]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/linux/alarmtimer.h
kernel/time/alarmtimer.c