Re: [BUG] Race condition with it_real_fn in kernel/itimer.c

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:23 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> 
> 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> 		base = &per_cpu(tvec_bases, i);
> 		if (base->running_timer == timer) {
> 			while (base->running_timer == timer) {
> 				cpu_relax();
> 				preempt_check_resched();
> 			}
> 			break;
> 		}
> 	}
> 
> If the timer hasn't gone off yet on another cpu, it will spin until it
> is finished. Now here's the problem:

This was suppose to say...

If the timer is currently going off on another cpu.


-- Steve