+ /*
+ * It can happen that other CPUs service timer IRQs and increment
+ * jiffies, but we have not yet got a local timer tick to process
+ * the timer wheels. In that case, the expiry time can be before
+ * jiffies, but since the high-resolution timer here is relative to
+ * jiffies, the default expression when high-resolution timers are
+ * not active,
+ *
+ * time_before(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET + jiffies, expires)
+ *
+ * would falsely evaluate to true. If that is the case, just
+ * return jiffies so that we can immediately fire the local timer
+ */
+ if (time_before(expires, jiffies))
+ return jiffies;
+