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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:49:32 +0000 (15:49 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:12 +0000 (17:00 +1100)
commita3850d6481df02bb3cc309594cb8bbc9d5d0c832
tree73223664075bb92be98580557e642aab8ba8d770
parentc65b4e6ebc283827c91cba596e6493ac148e05f3
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