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Message-ID: <87msmlsh41.ffs@tglx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:47:58 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi <michael@...rulasolutions.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, John Stultz
 <jstultz@...gle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Stephen Boyd
 <sboyd@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Michael
 <michael@...isi.de>, kernel-team@...roid.com, Peter Zijlstra
 <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] time: alarmtimer: Use TASK_FREEZABLE to
 cleanup freezer handling

Michael!

On Thu, Jun 27 2024 at 09:46, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 11:58 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> >> This appears to be still somewhat racy, because the notifier can run
>> >> at this point AFAICS.
>> >
>> > Indeed it is. Let me think more about this.
>>
>> All of this is inherently racy as there is zero feedback whether the
>> event has been consumed or not. Making this feedback based is not
>> necessarily trivial, but let me stare into that.
>>
> Sorry to come back on this topic but I would like to know, if we can
> find a way to be sure
> to not lost wakeup or if you have already addressed in some series

No. I did not take care of it as I got distracted with other important
stuff. Feel free to take up the loose ends of this thread and make it
work. I'm happy to help discussing design choices.

Thanks,

        tglx

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