Re: [PATCH 0/2] del_timer_sync: proof of concept

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > However, this also means that __run_timers will not free up the timer and
> > it has to be explicitly freed with del_timer_??.
>
> I am not sure I understand you but no, del_timer{,_sync} is not needed.
>
> __run_timer deletes timer from base->tv? list and clears 'pending flag'.
>
> __del_timer_sync sets ->_base = NULL, but it is merely optimization.
> It could set ->_base = base, but in that case next del_timer_sync()
> call will need spin_lock(base->lock) again.

For some reason I thought that ->base == NULL would have special
significance outside of the function you discussed. Looks fine to me now.

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