netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/can/af_can.c: Change del_timer to del_timer

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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:28:02 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:	Rajan Aggarwal <rajan.aggarwal85@...il.com>
CC:	Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/can/af_can.c: Change del_timer to del_timer_sync

On 31.08.2011 11:57, Rajan Aggarwal wrote:

> From: Rajan Aggarwal <Rajan Aggarwal rajan.aggarwal85@...il.com>
> 
> This is important for SMP platform to check if timer function is
> executing on other CPU with deleting the timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajan Aggarwal <Rajan Aggarwal rajan.aggarwal85@...il.com>
> ---


Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>

Tnx Rajan.

>  net/can/af_can.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/can/af_can.c b/net/can/af_can.c
> index 8ce926d..9b0c32a 100644
> --- a/net/can/af_can.c
> +++ b/net/can/af_can.c
> @@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ static __exit void can_exit(void)
>  	struct net_device *dev;
>  
>  	if (stats_timer)
> -		del_timer(&can_stattimer);
> +		del_timer_sync(&can_stattimer);
>  
>  	can_remove_proc();
>  


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