Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] time: alarmtimer: Use TASK_FREEZABLE to cleanup freezer handling

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Mar 02 2023 - 17:21:58 EST


On Thu, Mar 02 2023 at 15:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:19 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +static atomic_t alarmtimer_wakeup;
>>
>> /**
>> * alarmtimer_fired - Handles alarm hrtimer being fired.
>> @@ -194,6 +196,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart alarmtimer_f
>> int ret = HRTIMER_NORESTART;
>> int restart = ALARMTIMER_NORESTART;
>>
>> + atomic_inc(&alarmtimer_wakeup);
>> +
>
> This appears to be still somewhat racy, because the notifier can run
> at this point AFAICS.

Indeed it is. Let me think more about this.