Commit 048a0e8f authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Paul E. McKenney

timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment

The mod_timer_pinned() header comment states that it prevents timers
from being migrated to a different CPU.  This is not the case, instead,
it ensures that the timer is posted to the current CPU, but does nothing
to prevent CPU-hotplug operations from migrating the timer.

This commit therefore brings the comment header into alignment with
reality.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 6d813391
......@@ -861,7 +861,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mod_timer);
*
* mod_timer_pinned() is a way to update the expire field of an
* active timer (if the timer is inactive it will be activated)
* and not allow the timer to be migrated to a different CPU.
* and to ensure that the timer is scheduled on the current CPU.
*
* Note that this does not prevent the timer from being migrated
* when the current CPU goes offline. If this is a problem for
* you, use CPU-hotplug notifiers to handle it correctly, for
* example, cancelling the timer when the corresponding CPU goes
* offline.
*
* mod_timer_pinned(timer, expires) is equivalent to:
*
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