tick: sched: Remove hrtimer_active() checks

hrtimer_start() enforces a timer interrupt if the timer is already
expired. Get rid of the checks and the forward loop.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.943658239@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -696,8 +696,6 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 		if (ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES) {
 			hrtimer_start(&ts->sched_timer, expires,
 				      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
-			/* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
-			if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer))
 			goto out;
 		} else if (!tick_program_event(expires, 0))
 			goto out;
@@ -888,8 +886,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 		if (ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES) {
 			hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,
 					      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
-			/* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
-			if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer))
 				break;
 		} else {
 			if (!tick_program_event(
@@ -1167,15 +1163,8 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
 		hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
 	}
 
-	for (;;) {
 	hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);
-		hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,
-				      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
-		/* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
-		if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer))
-			break;
-		now = ktime_get();
-	}
+	hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 	if (tick_nohz_enabled) {