The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated. The timers are only removed
from the task/process list heads but not modified in any other way.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819143801.747233612@linutronix.de
}
/*
- * Clean out CPU timers still ticking when a thread exited. The task
- * pointer is cleared, and the expiry time is replaced with the residual
- * time for later timer_gettime calls to return.
+ * Clean out CPU timers which are still armed when a thread exits. The
+ * timers are only removed from the list. No other updates are done. The
+ * corresponding posix timers are still accessible, but cannot be rearmed.
+ *
* This must be called with the siglock held.
*/
static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head)