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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2021-03-29 20:13:37 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2021-04-07 19:26:44 +0200
commit4c81cb7e64436a729cf20cdddaf18a9b4a638430 (patch)
treeaf5a0c3c427bcc54d0b9ff6b3eae2c11bb60ab07 /kernel/time/tick-sched.c
parentd484b8bfc6fa71a088e4ac85d9ce11aa0385867e (diff)
downloadlinux-4c81cb7e64436a729cf20cdddaf18a9b4a638430.tar.bz2
tick/nohz: Improve tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() kerneldoc
Make the tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() kerneldoc comment state clearly that the function may return negative numbers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index e10a4af88737..ee0032b95a7c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/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)
{