Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rusty Trivial Russell <> | Subject | [TRIVIAL] Remove reference to timer_exit() from kernel-locking.tmpl, fix typo. | Date | Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:45:32 +1100 |
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From: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
timer_exit() isn't a public function, and doesn't even exist in 2.5. 2.4 calls it internally after timers. It seems timer users need not do anything special.
--- trivial-2.5-bk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl.orig 2002-12-06 13:56:55.000000000 +1100 +++ trivial-2.5-bk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl 2002-12-06 13:56:55.000000000 +1100 @@ -1055,10 +1055,8 @@ Another common problem is deleting timers which restart themselves (by calling <function>add_timer()</function> at the end of their timer function). Because this is a fairly common case - which is prone to races, you can put a call to - <function>timer_exit()</function> at the very end of your timer function, - and user <function>del_timer_sync()</function> - (<filename class=headerfile>include/linux/timer.h</filename>) + which is prone to races, you should use <function>del_timer_sync()</function> + (<filename class=headerfile>include/linux/timer.h</filename>) to handle this case. It returns the number of times the timer had to be deleted before we finally stopped it from adding itself back in. -- Don't blame me: the Monkey is driving File: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>: Remove reference to timer_exit() from kernel-locking.tmpl, fix typo. - 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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