Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] itimers: fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:48:07 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:35 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > incr_error and error fields of struct cpu_itimer are used when calculating > next timer tick in check_cpu_itimers() and should not be modified without > tsk->sighand->siglock taken.
Won't it be all-round much better to convert these things to hrtimers instead of adding more and more fuzz on top to make them deal with jiffies?
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