From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Make the tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() kerneldoc comment state clearly
that the function may return negative numbers.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-pm/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux-pm/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,11 @@ ktime_t tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer(void)
* tick_nohz_get_sleep_length - return the expected length of the current sleep
* @delta_next: duration until the next event if the tick cannot be stopped
*
- * Called from power state control code with interrupts disabled
+ * Called from power state control code with interrupts disabled.
+ *
+ * The return value of this function and/or the value returned by it through the
+ * @delta_next pointer can be negative which must be taken into account by its
+ * callers.
*/
ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(ktime_t *delta_next)
{