A leftover from historical code which describes fiction.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -689,13 +689,8 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_
__posix_cpu_timer_get(timer, old, now);
}
+ /* Retry if the timer expiry is running concurrently */
if (unlikely(ret)) {
- /*
- * We are colliding with the timer actually firing.
- * Punt after filling in the timer's old value, and
- * disable this firing since we are already reporting
- * it as an overrun (thanks to bump_cpu_timer above).
- */
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
goto out;
}