Re: Debugging neighbour.c: timers

From: David S. Miller
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 19:48:49 EST


From: "A.N.Kuznetsov" <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:38:45 +0400

> Actually, when this code was written, add_timer() behaved differently,
> double add_timer() was prohibited and it printked
> "bug: kernel timer added twice at...".

Yes, it calls __mod_timer() now. That's quite bad and
the debugging check should be re-added I think.

Is there some reason why we want add_timer() to behave like
__mod_timer(timer, timer->expires)? I can't see any...

So perhaps we should add the simple BUG_ON(timer->pending) check to
include/linux/timer.h:add_timer()

add_timer_on() does this check btw....
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