In message <3A74451F.DA29FD17@uow.edu.au> you write:
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0005.3/0269.html
>
> A lot of the timer deletion races are hard to fix because of
> the deadlock problem.
Hmmm...
For 2.5, changing the timer interface to disallow mod_timer or
add_timer (equivalent) on self, and making the timerfn return num
jiffies to next run (0 = don't rerun) would solve this, right?
I don't see a maintainable way of solving this otherwise,
Of course, kfree'ing the timer struct and returning non-zero
would be a *bug*...
Rusty.
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