linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called before freeing timers

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:50:31 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called
 before freeing timers

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:16:31 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And honestly, for that to happen I'd be perfectly happy with something like
> 
>   #define timer_shutdown(t) del_timer(t)
>   #define timer_shutdown_sync(t) del_timer_sync(t)
> 
> (obviously with the patches that first remove the existing
> 'timer_shutdown()' uses first). That wouldn't introduce the *new*
> semantics, but it would at least allow the different subsystems to do
> the obvious cases, and let the networking people wonder about the much
> less obvious ones.

I can create the above series, if Thomas is OK with this approach.

-- Steve