1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>hrtimer_forward</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers"><link rel="up" href="ch01s05.html" title="High-resolution timers"><link rel="prev" href="API-struct-hrtimer-clock-base.html" title="struct hrtimer_clock_base"><link rel="next" href="API-hrtimer-start-range-ns.html" title="hrtimer_start_range_ns"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">hrtimer_forward</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-struct-hrtimer-clock-base.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">High-resolution timers</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-hrtimer-start-range-ns.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-hrtimer-forward"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>hrtimer_forward &#8212; 
2  forward the timer expiry
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">u64 <b class="fsfunc">hrtimer_forward </b>(</code></td><td>struct hrtimer * <var class="pdparam">timer</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>ktime_t <var class="pdparam">now</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>ktime_t <var class="pdparam">interval</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1107573556"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>timer</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     hrtimer to forward
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>now</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     forward past this time
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>interval</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     the interval to forward
9    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1107577204"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
10   Forward the timer expiry so it will expire in the future.
11   Returns the number of overruns.
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