From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Emmanuel Michon <emmanuel_michon@realmagic.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tasklet scheduled after end of rmmod
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:11:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CEE7445.3B45DC44@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wptzlllek.fsf@avalon.france.sdesigns.com>
Emmanuel Michon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> as far as I understand nothing prevents a scheduled tasklet to have
> Linux jump to its routine, when the routine is in a module being
> rmmod'd. How should I take care of this?
>
> Are timers safe regarding this (I mean, we can consider the timer
> function won't be called as soon as del_timer() has returned)?
No, but del_timer_sync() is. See comments in
.../kernel/timer.c
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-24 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-24 13:34 tasklet scheduled after end of rmmod Emmanuel Michon
2002-05-24 17:11 ` george anzinger [this message]
2002-05-27 10:15 ` Ingo Oeser
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