alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
There's a number of edge cases when cancelling a alarm, so
to be sure we accurately do so, introduce try_to_cancel, which
returns proper failure errors if it cannot. Also modify cancel
to spin until the alarm is properly disabled.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
index 304124a..975009e 100644
--- a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
void alarm_init(struct alarm *alarm, enum alarmtimer_type type,
enum alarmtimer_restart (*function)(struct alarm *, ktime_t));
void alarm_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start);
-void alarm_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);
+int alarm_try_to_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);
+int alarm_cancel(struct alarm *alarm);
u64 alarm_forward(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval);