1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timerfd.h b/include/linux/timerfd.h
index 86cb0501d3e2..2d0792983f8c 100644
--- a/include/linux/timerfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/timerfd.h
@@ -11,13 +11,21 @@
 /* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
 
-/* Flags for timerfd_settime.  */
+/*
+ * CAREFUL: Check include/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
+ * new flags, since they might collide with O_* ones. We want
+ * to re-use O_* flags that couldn't possibly have a meaning
+ * from eventfd, in order to leave a free define-space for
+ * shared O_* flags.
+ */
 #define TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME (1 << 0)
-
-/* Flags for timerfd_create.  */
 #define TFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
 #define TFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
 
+#define TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS (TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK)
+/* Flags for timerfd_create.  */
+#define TFD_CREATE_FLAGS TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS
+/* Flags for timerfd_settime.  */
+#define TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_TIMERFD_H */
-