Make futex_wait() use an hrtimer for timeout

This patch modifies futex_wait() to use an hrtimer + schedule() in place of
schedule_timeout().

schedule_timeout() is tick based, therefore the timeout granularity is the
tick (1 ms, 4 ms or 10 ms depending on HZ).  By using a high resolution timer
for timeout wakeup, we can attain a much finer timeout granularity (in the
microsecond range).  This parallels what is already done for futex_lock_pi().

The timeout passed to the syscall is no longer converted to jiffies and is
therefore passed to do_futex() and futex_wait() as an absolute ktime_t
therefore keeping nanosecond resolution.

Also this removes the need to pass the nanoseconds timeout part to
futex_lock_pi() in val2.

In futex_wait(), if there is no timeout then a regular schedule() is
performed.  Otherwise, an hrtimer is fired before schedule() is called.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix `make headers_check']
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/futex.h b/include/linux/futex.h
index 820125c628c..34e54f2b899 100644
--- a/include/linux/futex.h
+++ b/include/linux/futex.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 
+union ktime;
+
 /* Second argument to futex syscall */
 
 
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ struct robust_list_head {
 #define ROBUST_LIST_LIMIT	2048
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, unsigned long timeout,
+long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, union ktime *timeout,
 	      u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3);
 
 extern int