Re: [PATCH 4/7] posix-timers: CPU clock support for POSIX timers

[George Anzinger]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> POSIX requires that when you claim _POSIX_CPUTIME and _POSIX_THREAD_CPUTIME,
> not only the clock_* calls but also timer_* calls must support the thread
> and process CPU time clocks.  This patch provides that support, building on
> my recent additions to support these clocks in the POSIX clock_* interfaces.
> This patch will not work without those changes, as well as the patch fixing
> the timer lock-siglock deadlock problem.
>
> The apparent pervasive changes to posix-timers.c are simply that some
> fields of struct k_itimer have changed name and moved into a union.
> This was appropriate since the data structures required for the existing
> real-time timer support and for the new thread/process CPU-time timers are
> quite different.

Possibly you could bury these name changes in defines.  I suspect the code would 
be easier to read and that we really don't need to be reminded that it is a 
union on each reference.


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George Anzinger   george@xxxxxxxxxx
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

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