linux-kernel - Re: [tip:timers/urgent] hrtimer: Preserve timer state in remove

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Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:34:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sqazi@...gle.com, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:timers/urgent] hrtimer: Preserve timer state in
 remove_hrtimer()

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 11:34 +0000, tip-bot for Salman Qazi wrote:
> > The bug was introduced with commit ca109491f (hrtimer: removing all ur
> > callback modes) in 2.6.29 
> 
> Not actually sure about that,. afaict its due to unlocking the base lock
> over the callback, which comes from 2d44ae4d7 (hrtimer: clean up
> cpu->base locking tricks), and existed before that in the special case
> of the scheduler tick (for which this problem is very unlikely to have
> ever triggered because we simply don't call start on it when its
> running).

Yeah, I got confused on that :)

 
> Anyway, the patch does look good, so


     tglx
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