Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] timer: fix comments of try_to_del_timer_sync()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 08:41:44 EST


On 08/24, Yong Zhang wrote:
>
> From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In commit fd450b7318b75343fd76b3d95416853e34e72c95, it was saying
> try_to_del_timer_sync() can be used in interrupt context.

Yes, but not in UP case.

Please remove "#ifdef CONFIG_SMP" from set_running_timer(), then iirc
it can be used from irq.

Oleg.

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