posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback

We have already new_timer initialized to all-zeros hence in function
initializations are not needed. Document function expectation about
new_timer argument as well.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 5c9dc228747b..438ff4523513 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ int posix_cpu_clock_get(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 
 /*
  * Validate the clockid_t for a new CPU-clock timer, and initialize the timer.
- * This is called from sys_timer_create with the new timer already locked.
+ * This is called from sys_timer_create() and do_cpu_nanosleep() with the
+ * new timer already all-zeros initialized.
  */
 int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 {
@@ -396,8 +397,6 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);
-        new_timer->it.cpu.incr.sched = 0;
-        new_timer->it.cpu.expires.sched = 0;
 
         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
         if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {