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Message-ID: <166929937874.4906.5556735136767567261.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:16:18 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
"Anna-Maria Behnsen" <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: timers/core] Documentation: Remove bogus claim about del_timer_sync()
The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:
Commit-ID: b0b0aa5d858d4d2fe39a5e4486e0550e858108f6
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b0b0aa5d858d4d2fe39a5e4486e0550e858108f6
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:18:31 +01:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:09:10 +01:00
Documentation: Remove bogus claim about del_timer_sync()
del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the
timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented:
The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not.
This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really
returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code
was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de
---
Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 3 +--
Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 4 +---
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
index 6805ae6..b26e4a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
@@ -1006,8 +1006,7 @@ Another common problem is deleting timers which restart themselves (by
calling add_timer() at the end of their timer function).
Because this is a fairly common case which is prone to races, you should
use del_timer_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to
-handle this case. It returns the number of times the timer had to be
-deleted before we finally stopped it from adding itself back in.
+handle this case.
Locking Speed
=============
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
index 51af37f..eddfba8 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
@@ -1027,9 +1027,7 @@ Un altro problema è l'eliminazione dei temporizzatori che si riavviano
da soli (chiamando add_timer() alla fine della loro esecuzione).
Dato che questo è un problema abbastanza comune con una propensione
alle corse critiche, dovreste usare del_timer_sync()
-(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso. Questa ritorna il
-numero di volte che il temporizzatore è stato interrotto prima che
-fosse in grado di fermarlo senza che si riavviasse.
+(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso.
Velocità della sincronizzazione
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