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([121.185.236.165]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 41be03b00d2f7-c6e532fa2e5sm15895002a12.26.2026.02.19.09.13.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:13:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeongjun Park To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, Julia.Lawall@inria.fr, akpm@linux-foundation.org, anna-maria@linutronix.de, arnd@arndb.de, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net, luiz.dentz@gmail.com, marcel@holtmann.org, maz@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, sboyd@kernel.org, viresh.kumar@linaro.org, zouyipeng@huawei.com, aha310510@gmail.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, Jacob Keller Subject: [PATCH 5.10.y 01/15] Documentation: Remove bogus claim about del_timer_sync() Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:12:56 +0900 Message-Id: <20260219171310.118170-2-aha310510@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20260219171310.118170-1-aha310510@gmail.com> References: <20260219171310.118170-1-aha310510@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Thomas Gleixner [ Upstream commit b0b0aa5d858d4d2fe39a5e4486e0550e858108f6 ] del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented: The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not. This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park --- Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 3 +-- Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index 6805ae6e86e6..b26e4a3a9b7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -1006,8 +1006,7 @@ Another common problem is deleting timers which restart themselves (by calling add_timer() at the end of their timer function). Because this is a fairly common case which is prone to races, you should use del_timer_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to -handle this case. It returns the number of times the timer had to be -deleted before we finally stopped it from adding itself back in. +handle this case. Locking Speed ============= diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index 51af37f2d621..eddfba806e13 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -1027,9 +1027,7 @@ Un altro problema è l'eliminazione dei temporizzatori che si riavviano da soli (chiamando add_timer() alla fine della loro esecuzione). Dato che questo è un problema abbastanza comune con una propensione alle corse critiche, dovreste usare del_timer_sync() -(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso. Questa ritorna il -numero di volte che il temporizzatore è stato interrotto prima che -fosse in grado di fermarlo senza che si riavviasse. +(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso. 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