linux-kernel - Re: [for-linus][PATCH 4/5] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() to be called before freeing timers

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Message-ID: <87v8nrvz2y.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:27:49 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
Subject: Re: [for-linus][PATCH 4/5] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() and
 timer_shutdown() to be called before freeing timers

On Sun, Nov 06 2022 at 18:30, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
>  /**
> - * del_timer_sync - deactivate a timer and wait for the handler to finish.
> + * __del_timer_sync - deactivate a timer and wait for the handler to finish.
>   * @timer: the timer to be deactivated
> + * @free: Set to true if the timer is about to be freed
>   *
>   * This function only differs from del_timer() on SMP: besides
>   deactivating

How is this comment still correct?

Thanks,

        tglx