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-rw-r--r--include/linux/jiffies.h10
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nfs_fs.h5
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index abb6ac639e8e..1a9cf78bfce5 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -115,10 +115,20 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
((long)(a) - (long)(b) >= 0))
#define time_before_eq(a,b) time_after_eq(b,a)
+/*
+ * Calculate whether a is in the range of [b, c].
+ */
#define time_in_range(a,b,c) \
(time_after_eq(a,b) && \
time_before_eq(a,c))
+/*
+ * Calculate whether a is in the range of [b, c).
+ */
+#define time_in_range_open(a,b,c) \
+ (time_after_eq(a,b) && \
+ time_before(a,c))
+
/* Same as above, but does so with platform independent 64bit types.
* These must be used when utilizing jiffies_64 (i.e. return value of
* get_jiffies_64() */
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index b8d9c6dd4f63..db867b04ac3c 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ struct nfs_inode {
*
* We need to revalidate the cached attrs for this inode if
*
- * jiffies - read_cache_jiffies > attrtimeo
+ * jiffies - read_cache_jiffies >= attrtimeo
+ *
+ * Please note the comparison is greater than or equal
+ * so that zero timeout values can be specified.
*/
unsigned long read_cache_jiffies;
unsigned long attrtimeo;
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