Re: foo vs task_struct and kernel timers?

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 10:56:19 EST

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andrewm@uow.edu.au said:
> However schedule_timeout() still uses del_timer(). This can now be
> replaced with del_timer_sync(). I don't know why it hasn't been...

It was in test1-ac14 but without a del_timer() in the timer, so it caused
deadlocks and was removed again in -ac15. Then an alternative fix was put
into -ac17.

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