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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:58:08 +0100
From:   Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc:     peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
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        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers: Remove useless call to
 check_dl_overrun
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On 071118, 12:10, Juri Lelli wrote:
> check_dl_overrun is used to send a SIGXCPU to users that asked to be
> informed when SCHED_DEADLINE runtime overruns occur.
> 
> The function is called by check_thread_timers already, so the call in
> check_process_timers is redundant/wrong (even though harmless).
> 
> Remove it.
> 
> Fixes: 34be39305a77 ("sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support")
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
> Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
> index ce32cf741b25..8f0644af40be 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
> @@ -917,9 +917,6 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  	struct task_cputime cputime;
>  	unsigned long soft;
>  
> -	if (dl_task(tsk))
> -		check_dl_overrun(tsk);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * If cputimer is not running, then there are no active
>  	 * process wide timers (POSIX 1.b, itimers, RLIMIT_CPU).
> -- 

[ Superfluous as (fortunately) already queued...]
Tested-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>

Thank you for taking care of this pending issue.

          Claudio