linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 13/33] timers: drm: Use timer_shutdown

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Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2022 15:02:10 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 13/33] timers: drm: Use timer_shutdown_sync()
 before freeing timer

On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 08:48:28 +0000
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> If it stays all DRM drivers in one patch then I guess it needs to go via 
> drm-misc, which for i915 would be okay I think in this case since patch 
> is extremely unlikely to clash with anything. Or split it up per driver 
> and then we can handle it in drm-intel-next once core functionality is in.
> 
> We do however have some more calls to del_timer_sync, where freeing is 
> perhaps not immediately next to the site in code, but things definitely 
> get freed like on module unload. Would we need to convert all of them to 
> avoid some, presumably new, warnings?


I'm happy to split this patch up. I just got a bit lazy and started
just grouping via entire subsystems. You should see the networking
patch ;-)

-- Steve