linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: via_wdt: replace del_timer by del_timer

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Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:08:59 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
CC:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: via_wdt: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync

On 04/01/2014 06:49 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>
> Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
> the driver exits.
>
> This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> identifier i,t,ex;
> @@
> struct t i = { .remove = ex, };
>
> @@
> identifier r.ex;
> @@
> ex(...) {
>    <...
> - del_timer
> + del_timer_sync
>      (...)
>    ...>
> }
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>


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