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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:32:13 +0000 (15:32 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:47:56 +0000 (16:47 +1100)
commit324bfdecc3afd67105d46f6f44e7976b16c11811
tree63a455c0a35e3d2e9af4661e18bfb22f20724e8c
parent0d34271b61131f5413437da1079ed67b0ed005cd
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