From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966635AbcIWPch (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:32:37 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:44390 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161101AbcIWPcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:32:12 -0400 Message-Id: <20160923153202.703765416@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.61-1 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:30:33 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Carsten Emde , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , John Kacur , Paul Gortmaker , Subject: [PATCH RT 2/8] timers: wakeup all timer waiters without holding the base lock References: <20160923153031.676858930@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0002-timers-wakeup-all-timer-waiters-without-holding-the-.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.10.103-rt115-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior There should be no need to hold the base lock during the wakeup. There should be no boosting involved, the wakeup list has its own lock so it should be safe to do this without the lock. Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index ddcd6480cb4d..e6addc8e9b5a 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1267,8 +1267,8 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct tvec_base *base) } } } - wakeup_timer_waiters(base); spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock); + wakeup_timer_waiters(base); } #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON -- 2.8.1