Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called before freeing timers

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, Nov 13 2022 at 19:15, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You surely have spent a massive amount of analysis on this!
>> 
>> Can you please explain how you came up with the brilliant idea of asking
>> Linus to pull this post -rc4 without a review from the timer maintainers
>> or anyone else who understands concurrency?
>
> I trusted the source of this code:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/87pmlrkgi3.ffs@tglx/

Sure because uncomplied suggestions are the ultimate source of truth and
correctness, right?

I'm terribly sorry that I misled you on this, but OTOH it's pretty
obvious that you decided to ignore:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/87v8vjiaih.ffs@tglx/

Thanks,

        tglx