Re: del_timer_sync needed for UP RT systems.

[Daniel Walker]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:34, George Anzinger wrote:
> I agree.  The change to do this is to use the del_timer_sync() or the 
> del_singleshot_timer() code.
> 
> It is possible and desirable to be able to delete a running timer.  We don't 
> want to take it away from the timer call back routine, however, as that leads to 
> "bad things".  That is why these two del_* routines were written.


I'll defer to you on that, since I don't really know what timer people
need.. 

After reviewing, del_timer_sync() I don't think that will stop this
race. Because the wakeup happens before posix_timer_fn() is called in
__run_timers() .

Daniel

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