hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_start() return value

No user was ever interested whether the timer was active or not when
it was started. All abusers of the return value are gone, so get rid
of it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203503.483556394@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

include/linux/hrtimer.h

@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static inline void destroy_hrtimer_on_stack(struct hrtimer *timer) { }
 #endif
 
 /* Basic timer operations: */
-extern int hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
+extern void hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
 			unsigned long range_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode);
 
 /**
@@ -364,34 +364,30 @@ extern int hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
  * @tim:	expiry time
  * @mode:	expiry mode: absolute (HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) or
  *		relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
- *
- * Returns:
- *  0 on success
- *  1 when the timer was active
  */
-static inline int hrtimer_start(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
-				const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
+static inline void hrtimer_start(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
+				 const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
 {
-	return hrtimer_start_range_ns(timer, tim, 0, mode);
+	hrtimer_start_range_ns(timer, tim, 0, mode);
 }
 
 extern int hrtimer_cancel(struct hrtimer *timer);
 extern int hrtimer_try_to_cancel(struct hrtimer *timer);
 
-static inline int hrtimer_start_expires(struct hrtimer *timer,
-						enum hrtimer_mode mode)
+static inline void hrtimer_start_expires(struct hrtimer *timer,
+					 enum hrtimer_mode mode)
 {
 	unsigned long delta;
 	ktime_t soft, hard;
 	soft = hrtimer_get_softexpires(timer);
 	hard = hrtimer_get_expires(timer);
 	delta = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(hard, soft));
-	return hrtimer_start_range_ns(timer, soft, delta, mode);
+	hrtimer_start_range_ns(timer, soft, delta, mode);
 }
 
-static inline int hrtimer_restart(struct hrtimer *timer)
+static inline void hrtimer_restart(struct hrtimer *timer)
 {
-	return hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+	hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
 }
 
 /* Query timers: */

include/linux/interrupt.h

@@ -593,10 +593,10 @@ tasklet_hrtimer_init(struct tasklet_hrtimer *ttimer,
 		     clockid_t which_clock, enum hrtimer_mode mode);
 
 static inline
-int tasklet_hrtimer_start(struct tasklet_hrtimer *ttimer, ktime_t time,
-			  const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
+void tasklet_hrtimer_start(struct tasklet_hrtimer *ttimer, ktime_t time,
+			   const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
 {
-	return hrtimer_start(&ttimer->timer, time, mode);
+	hrtimer_start(&ttimer->timer, time, mode);
 }
 
 static inline

kernel/time/hrtimer.c

@@ -923,22 +923,18 @@ remove_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *timer, struct hrtimer_clock_base *base)
  * @delta_ns:	"slack" range for the timer
  * @mode:	expiry mode: absolute (HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) or
  *		relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
- *
- * Returns:
- *  0 on success
- *  1 when the timer was active
  */
-int hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
-			   unsigned long delta_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
+void hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
+			    unsigned long delta_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
 {
 	struct hrtimer_clock_base *base, *new_base;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int ret, leftmost;
+	int leftmost;
 
 	base = lock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
 
 	/* Remove an active timer from the queue: */
-	ret = remove_hrtimer(timer, base);
+	remove_hrtimer(timer, base);
 
 	if (mode & HRTIMER_MODE_REL) {
 		tim = ktime_add_safe(tim, base->get_time());
@@ -962,11 +958,8 @@ int hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
 	timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info(timer);
 
 	leftmost = enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base);
-
-	if (!leftmost) {
-		unlock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
-		return ret;
-	}
+	if (!leftmost)
+		goto unlock;
 
 	if (!hrtimer_is_hres_active(timer)) {
 		/*
@@ -977,10 +970,8 @@ int hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
 	} else {
 		hrtimer_reprogram(timer, new_base);
 	}
-
+unlock:
 	unlock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
-
-	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hrtimer_start_range_ns);