Re: [PATCH] Re: [BUG] Race condition with it_real_fn inkernel/itimer.c

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 09:23:20 EST


Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> Andrew, (or Roland since I see Andrew added you to the list)
>
> What do you think? Should try_to_del_timer_sync be brought over to the
> mainline, or have the above ugly code added?

On the other hand, if 2 threads calls do_setitimer() in parallel
they are asking for trouble. So may be it is possible to ignore
this minor problem and stay with your patch?

Oleg.
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