Re: [PATCH 4/4] posix-timers: turn it_signal into it_valid flag
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Sep 06 2011 - 10:54:47 EST
On 09/05, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > I forgot everything I knew about ->it_requeue_pending logic, but it
> > seems to me that do_schedule_next_timer()->lock_timer() can find and
> > lock successfully the wrong timer. Another thread can do timer_delete()
> > and then re-create the timer with the same id.
>
> Do you mean after my patches or even before?
Ah, sorry for confusion.
Before. And after. IOW, I think this has nothing to do with your patches.
Oleg.
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