Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 17:29:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH rc4-mm2 2/2] posix-timers: use try_to_del_timer_sync() |
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George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > sys_timer_settime/sys_timer_delete needs to delete k_itimer->real.timer > > synchronously while holding ->it_lock, which is also locked in posix_timer_fn. > > > > This patch removes timer_active/set_timer_inactive which plays with > > timer_list's internals in favour of using try_to_del_timer_sync(), > > which was introduced in the previous patch. > > Is there a particular reason for this, like it does not work, for example, or > are you just trying to clean up code?
The posix-timers code is poking about in the internals of the timer_list implementation. It shouldn't, and finding some way to fix that up is desirable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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