Re: [RT PATCH 1/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 07/14/2016 06:13 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>  
>> -# define wakeup_timer_waiters(b)	wake_up(&(b)->wait_for_running_timer)
>> +# define wakeup_timer_waiters(b)	wake_up_all(&(b)->wait_for_running_timer)
> 
> OK, I just received this patch (way after patch 2)
> 
> I'm assuming that patch two was done such that you don't do a
> "wake_up_all" under a spinlock.

No. I pulled in new timer code in and had to redo this part of RT.

While doing so I noticed that we drop the base lock during timer
invocations and so it could be possible that we have two invocations
of del_timer_sync() on a timer on the same "base" (one after the
other). This is patch #1.

After that I saw that we do the wake up under the base lock but there
is no reason for it. So here is patch #2.

Patch #1 is something that could happen in theory and I did not run in
any problem.

Sebastian