timer_gettime() must return the remaining time to the next expiry of a
timer or 0 if the timer is not armed and no signal pending, but posix CPU
timers fail to forward a timer which is already expired.
Add the required logic to address that.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
V2: Split out into new patch to make review simpler - Frederic
---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -787,8 +787,24 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_
static void __posix_cpu_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timer, struct itimerspec64 *itp, u64 now)
{
- u64 expires = cpu_timer_getexpires(&timer->it.cpu);
+ u64 expires, iv = timer->it_interval;
+ /*
+ * Make sure that interval timers are moved forward for the
+ * following cases:
+ * - Timers which expired, but the signal has not yet been
+ * delivered
+ */
+ if (iv && (timer->it_requeue_pending & REQUEUE_PENDING))
+ expires = bump_cpu_timer(timer, now);
+ else
+ expires = cpu_timer_getexpires(&timer->it.cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * Expired interval timers cannot have a remaining time <= 0.
+ * The kernel has to move them forward so that the next
+ * timer expiry is > @now.
+ */
if (now < expires) {
itp->it_value = ns_to_timespec64(expires - now);
} else {