alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime
authorRichard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com>
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:31:03 +0000 (18:31 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:52:21 +0000 (14:52 -0700)
commit6050dbd80f0f30c034bd2d1fb50ee3547954da79
treeb97a0d87db2d5641274c518bb8353fcf9111281c
parent0dd3e23fcb70daa8d879c5f320ff65029da2b371
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/time/alarmtimer.c