tree a589b39042ad47f5acb154a8a7506a77c4d85c59
parent 6c5e9059692567740a4ee51530dffe51a4b9584d
author Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> 1477065531 -0700
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1477480487 +0200

timers: Fix documentation for schedule_timeout() and similar

The documentation for schedule_timeout(), schedule_hrtimeout(), and
schedule_hrtimeout_range() all claim that the routines couldn't possibly
return early if the task state was TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. This is simply
not true since wake_up_process() will cause those routines to exit early.

We cannot make schedule_[hr]timeout() loop until the timeout expires if the
task state is uninterruptible because we have users which rely on the
existing and designed behaviour.

Make the documentation match the (correct) implementation.

schedule_hrtimeout() returns -EINTR even when a uninterruptible task was
woken up. This might look strange, but making the return code depend on the
state is too much of an effort as it would affect all the call sites. There
is no value in doing so, but we spell it out clearly in the documentation.

Suggested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: huangtao@rock-chips.com
Cc: heiko@sntech.de
Cc: broonie@kernel.org
Cc: briannorris@chromium.org
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
Cc: tony.xie@rock-chips.com
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: tskd08@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477065531-30342-2-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>