Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] scalable timers implementation, 2.4.16, 2.5.0 | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:10:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The deadlock you're referring to is, I assume, del_timer_sync() called > inside the timer itself? Can you think of any other dangerous cases?
Any case where the timer handler and the calling code both want the same lock. So for example timer based I/O completion polling will deadlock against request code doing a del_timer_sync - 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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