Re: del_timer_sync needed for UP RT systems.

[Daniel Walker]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:24, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:14, George Anzinger wrote:
> 
> > The problem here is that the reference is to timr, a pointer to something which 
> > has been deleted.  The memory may well be used elsewhere by this time which will 
> > make the test of it_process wrong.  It also means we could mess with someone 
> > elses memory in the memset above.
> 
> Bottom line, you can use sys_timer_delete() on a timer, and trigger the
> same timer your deleting .. Those operations should be serialized, which
> they currently aren't .. 

Um, sorry typo, you _can't_ delete a timer, and trigger it at the same
time. That's bad.

Daniel

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