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Message-ID: <20150604105537.GT18673@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 12:55:37 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
Cc:	"umgwanakikbuti@...il.com" <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"ktkhai@...allels.com" <ktkhai@...allels.com>,
	"rostedt@...dmis.org" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"juri.lelli@...il.com" <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
	"pang.xunlei@...aro.org" <pang.xunlei@...aro.org>,
	"oleg@...hat.com" <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com" <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 12:49:02PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Needs more comments at the very least, its fully of trickery.
> 
> @@ -1118,10 +1125,16 @@ static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer
>  	enum hrtimer_restart (*fn)(struct hrtimer *);
>  	int restart;
>  
> -	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&cpu_base->lock);
>  
>  	debug_deactivate(timer);
> -	base->running = timer;
> +	cpu_base->running = timer;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * separate the ->running assignment from the ->state assignment
> +	 */
> +	write_seqcount_begin(&cpu_base->seq);

Maybe these need to be raw_write_seqcount_latch()..

> +
>  	__remove_hrtimer(timer, base, HRTIMER_STATE_INACTIVE, 0);
>  	timer_stats_account_hrtimer(timer);
>  	fn = timer->function;
> @@ -1150,8 +1163,13 @@ static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer
>  	    !(timer->state & HRTIMER_STATE_ENQUEUED))
>  		enqueue_hrtimer(timer, base);
>  
> -	WARN_ON_ONCE(base->running != timer);
> -	base->running = NULL;
> +	/*
> +	 * separate the ->running assignment from the ->state assignment
> +	 */
> +	write_seqcount_end(&cpu_base->seq);
> +
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_base->running != timer);
> +	cpu_base->running = NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static void __hrtimer_run_queues(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base, ktime_t now)
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