[patch 4/4] timerfd.2: Add ioctl method description
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-23 19:05:00
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ioctl(2) The following commands are supported: TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS to adjust the number of the timer expirations that have occurred. It take a pointer to nonzero 8-byte integer (uint64_t*) containing new number of expirations. Once the number is set any waiter on the timer is woken up. The only purpose of this command is to restore the expirations in a sake of checkpoint/restore procedure. It requires the kernel to be built with CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE support. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <redacted> CC: Michael Kerrisk <redacted> CC: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andrey Vagin <redacted> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted> CC: Vladimir Davydov <redacted> CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org --- man2/timerfd_create.2 | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index: man-pages/man2/timerfd_create.2 ===================================================================
--- man-pages.orig/man2/timerfd_create.2
+++ man-pages/man2/timerfd_create.2@@ -260,6 +260,20 @@ multiplexing APIs: and .BR epoll (7). .TP +.BR ioctl "(2)" +The following commands are supported: +.B TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS +to adjust the number of the timer expirations that have occurred. +It take a pointer to nonzero 8-byte integer +.RI ( uint64_t *) +containing the new number of expirations. +Once the number is set any waiter on the timer is woken up. +The only purpose of this command is to restore the expirations +in a sake of checkpoint/restore procedure. +It requires the kernel to be built with +.BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE +support. +.TP .BR close (2) When the file descriptor is no longer required it should be closed. When all file descriptors associated with the same timer object