Re: [linux-pm] QUESTION: How to fix race between .suspend routineand watchdog timer

[Alan Stern]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> > Use del_timer_sync().  It guarantees that when it returns, the timer 
> > will be stopped and the timer routine will no longer be running on any 
> > CPU.
> > 
> Even if the timer re-enables itself, are you sure?

Last time I looked at the source code, that's what it did.  I'll look
again...  Yep, it still does.  It checks to see if the timer routine is
currently running; if so then it waits a little while and tries again.

Alan Stern

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