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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:45 +0200
Subject: posix-cpu-timers: Fixup stale comment
Patch-mainline: v5.4-rc1
Git-commit: 7cb9a94c158b956f46cf093ed966d0c1e996dddb
References: bsc#1162702

The comment above cleanup_timers() is outdated.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
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 0a426f4e3125..742d4a4e6f71 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ static void cleanup_timers_list(struct list_head *head)
 }
 
 /*
- * 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)
-- 
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