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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

      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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