Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] posix-timers: make it configurable

From: John Stultz
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 19:48:25 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about
> 25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out.
>
> Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to
> use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were
> disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create,
> timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete,
> clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm.
>
> The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
> syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME,
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast
> majority of use cases with very little code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ok.. ran the series through the kselftest/timers series and the results look ok.

Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks
-john