posix-timers: Cleanup comments about timer ID tracking

Describe the hash table properly and remove the IDR leftover comments.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230425183313.038444551@linutronix.de

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index 0c61f29ef5d51f2659b816b9255f9ceb8e8aee8f..79909a2ac3e44a5a1ee1a714ca0c5cb3afac17c0 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -35,20 +35,17 @@
 #include "timekeeping.h"
 #include "posix-timers.h"
 
-/*
- * Management arrays for POSIX timers. Timers are now kept in static hash table
- * with 512 entries.
- * Timer ids are allocated by local routine, which selects proper hash head by
- * key, constructed from current->signal address and per signal struct counter.
- * This keeps timer ids unique per process, but now they can intersect between
- * processes.
- */
+static struct kmem_cache *posix_timers_cache;
 
 /*
- * Lets keep our timers in a slab cache :-)
+ * Timers are managed in a hash table for lockless lookup. The hash key is
+ * constructed from current::signal and the timer ID and the timer is
+ * matched against current::signal and the timer ID when walking the hash
+ * bucket list.
+ *
+ * This allows checkpoint/restore to reconstruct the exact timer IDs for
+ * a process.
  */
-static struct kmem_cache *posix_timers_cache;
-
 static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(posix_timers_hashtable, 9);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hash_lock);
 
@@ -65,15 +62,6 @@ static const struct k_clock clock_realtime, clock_monotonic;
 #error "SIGEV_THREAD_ID must not share bit with other SIGEV values!"
 #endif
 
-/*
- * The timer ID is turned into a timer address by idr_find().
- * Verifying a valid ID consists of:
- *
- * a) checking that idr_find() returns other than -1.
- * b) checking that the timer id matches the one in the timer itself.
- * c) that the timer owner is in the callers thread group.
- */
-
 /*
  * CLOCKs: The POSIX standard calls for a couple of clocks and allows us
  *         to implement others.  This structure defines the various