linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: timer: looping issue, need reset variable 'found'

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:47:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: timer: looping issue, need reset variable
 'found'

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 10:12 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I think we can treat original implementation as for speed optimization,
> so our discussion is "whether this speed optimization has effect with
> correctness".

Then I recommend that you to sit down and analyze the correctness of
the code.

Come back when you have a proof of the code being wrong. And by proof
I mean factual proof not just handwaving theories.

Thanks,

	tglx

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