Re: [for-linus][PATCH 4/5] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() to be called before freeing timers

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 07 2022 - 05:27:59 EST


On Sun, Nov 06 2022 at 18:30, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
> /**
> - * del_timer_sync - deactivate a timer and wait for the handler to finish.
> + * __del_timer_sync - deactivate a timer and wait for the handler to finish.
> * @timer: the timer to be deactivated
> + * @free: Set to true if the timer is about to be freed
> *
> * This function only differs from del_timer() on SMP: besides
> deactivating

How is this comment still correct?

Thanks,

tglx