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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:53:40 +0000 (01:53 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:01:45 +0000 (20:01 +1100)
commit8cfa91a2703ae08192c090114326ac9bfdc12e22
tree6a3f5bd35a72a2cc19f2e52d2484639696b3c21e
parent04ae7fff0f9e2f9a4f0aa8c0d9aa2cb37810bdda
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