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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:07:20 +0000 (15:07 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:38 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit27a7a28e0d3013e6b12072f18e00faa5366ae53e
treed07a31f7a5eb8e56ceea54a168d591a73a5f1808
parentb25d0fcf543fe3338fc75393780b31e244e7b42e
hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps

sleep(0) is a common construct used by applications that want to trigger
the scheduler.  sched_yield() might make more sense, but only appeared in
POSIX.1-2001 and so plenty of example code still uses the sleep(0) form.

This wouldn't normally be a problem, but it means that event-driven
applications that are merely trying to avoid starving other processes may
actually end up sleeping due to having large timer_slack values.  Special-
casing this seems reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/hrtimer.c