From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] QUESTION: How to fix race between .suspend routine and watchdog timer
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:19:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710282119.05266.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0710271820240.2321-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sunday 28 October 2007 00:24:10 Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>
> > > Use del_timer_sync(). It guarantees that when it returns, the timer
> > > will be stopped and the timer routine will no longer be running on any
> > > CPU.
> > >
> > Even if the timer re-enables itself, are you sure?
>
> Last time I looked at the source code, that's what it did. I'll look
> again... Yep, it still does. It checks to see if the timer routine is
> currently running; if so then it waits a little while and tries again.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
Thanks, a lot,
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-28 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 4:12 QUESTION: How to fix race between .suspend routine and watchdog timer Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-25 17:02 ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2007-10-26 11:48 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-27 19:17 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-27 19:19 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-27 22:24 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-28 19:19 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
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