alarmtimers: Add alarm_forward functionality

In order to avoid wasting time expiring and re-adding very high freq
periodic alarmtimers, introduce alarm_forward() which is similar to
hrtimer_forward and moves the timer to the next future expiration time
and returns the number of overruns.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
index 0289eb29e794..17535963b274 100644
--- a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
@@ -42,4 +42,6 @@ void alarm_init(struct alarm *alarm, enum alarmtimer_type type,
 void alarm_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start, ktime_t period);
 void alarm_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);
 
+u64 alarm_forward(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval);
+
 #endif