Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 00/31] timers: Use del_timer_shutdown() before freeing timers

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/27/22 12:16, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:11:43 -0700
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:02 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > So it works on current stable and current mainline? Does that mean we need
> > > to worry about this?
> >
> > No, I think Guenter is saying that current mainline *without* the
> > patches works fine.
> >
> > But v6.1-rc2 (which is quite close to that current mainline) *with*
> > the patches blows up.
> >
> > So it's almost certainly the patches that break. There are no
> > appreciable timer changes in those 105 commits (there's some added
> > irq_work_sync but that looks very unlikely to be related.
>
> Got it. I'll need to setup an arm64 VM to see if I can reproduce it.

Try http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/aarch64/

Guenter