Re: [PATCH 0/4] Posix Alarm Timers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 02:40:55 EST


On Wednesday 20 April 2011 01:58:26 John Stultz wrote:
>
> Just wanted to send out my current Posix Alarm Timers queue for
> comment and review in the hopes of getting it into shape for
> 2.6.40.
>
> Some background on the patches can be found here:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/
>
> New in this series:
> * Added timekeeping_inject_sleeptime, which corrects CLOCK_BOOTTIME
> for arches that don't support read_persistent_clock().
> * I've added a CAP_WAKE_ALARM capability to limit random applications
> from setting alarms in the last patch. This probably needs some
> careful review as it allows clock_nanosleep and timer_create to
> return -EPERM, which is new behavior.
>
I haven't looked at these patches much before, so I've done a brief
review now. They look very nice, and I can't find anything to complain
about.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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