Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 10:11:33 -0700 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: tasklet scheduled after end of rmmod |
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Emmanuel Michon wrote: > > Hi, > > as far as I understand nothing prevents a scheduled tasklet to have > Linux jump to its routine, when the routine is in a module being > rmmod'd. How should I take care of this? > > Are timers safe regarding this (I mean, we can consider the timer > function won't be called as soon as del_timer() has returned)?
No, but del_timer_sync() is. See comments in .../kernel/timer.c
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