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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/itimer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/itimer.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/itimer.c b/kernel/time/itimer.c index 00629e658ca1..876d389b2e21 100644 --- a/kernel/time/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/itimer.c @@ -151,7 +151,27 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getitimer, int, which, #endif /* - * The timer is automagically restarted, when interval != 0 + * Invoked from dequeue_signal() when SIG_ALRM is delivered. + * + * Restart the ITIMER_REAL timer if it is armed as periodic timer. Doing + * this in the signal delivery path instead of self rearming prevents a DoS + * with small increments in the high reolution timer case and reduces timer + * noise in general. + */ +void posixtimer_rearm_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + struct hrtimer *tmr = &tsk->signal->real_timer; + + if (!hrtimer_is_queued(tmr) && tsk->signal->it_real_incr != 0) { + hrtimer_forward(tmr, tmr->base->get_time(), + tsk->signal->it_real_incr); + hrtimer_restart(tmr); + } +} + +/* + * Interval timers are restarted in the signal delivery path. See + * posixtimer_rearm_itimer(). */ enum hrtimer_restart it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *timer) { |