Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Kautuk Consul <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/1] mm/backing-dev.c: Call del_timer_sync instead of del_timer | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:27:02 +0530 |
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This is important for SMP scenario, to check whether the timer callback is executing on another CPU when we are deleting the timer.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index d6edf8d..754b35a 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) * dirty data on the default backing_dev_info */ if (wb_has_dirty_io(me) || !list_empty(&me->bdi->work_list)) { - del_timer(&me->wakeup_timer); + del_timer_sync(&me->wakeup_timer); wb_do_writeback(me, 0); } -- 1.7.4.1
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