Frederic Weisbecker 0bee3b601b hrtimer: Improve comments on handling priority inversion against softirq kthread
The handling of a priority inversion between timer cancelling and a a not
well defined possible preemption of softirq kthread is not very clear.

Especially in the posix timers side it's unclear why there is a specific RT
wait callback.

All the nice explanations can be found in the initial changelog of
f61eff83ce (hrtimer: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT").

Extract the detailed informations from there and put it into comments.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820132656.GC2093@lenoir
2019-08-20 22:05:46 +02:00
2019-08-01 20:51:23 +02:00
2019-06-18 14:37:27 +01:00
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2019-07-21 14:05:38 -07:00

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