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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 17 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index 6805ae6e86e6..c756786e17ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ you might do the following:: while (list) { struct foo *next = list->next; - del_timer(&list->timer); + timer_delete(&list->timer); kfree(list); list = next; } @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ the lock after we spin_unlock_bh(), and then try to free the element (which has already been freed!). This can be avoided by checking the result of -del_timer(): if it returns 1, the timer has been deleted. +timer_delete(): if it returns 1, the timer has been deleted. If 0, it means (in this case) that it is currently running, so we can do:: @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ do:: while (list) { struct foo *next = list->next; - if (!del_timer(&list->timer)) { + if (!timer_delete(&list->timer)) { /* Give timer a chance to delete this */ spin_unlock_bh(&list_lock); goto retry; @@ -1005,9 +1005,12 @@ do:: Another common problem is deleting timers which restart themselves (by calling add_timer() at the end of their timer function). Because this is a fairly common case which is prone to races, you should -use del_timer_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to -handle this case. It returns the number of times the timer had to be -deleted before we finally stopped it from adding itself back in. +use timer_delete_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to handle this case. + +Before freeing a timer, timer_shutdown() or timer_shutdown_sync() should be +called which will keep it from being rearmed. Any subsequent attempt to +rearm the timer will be silently ignored by the core code. + Locking Speed ============= @@ -1335,7 +1338,7 @@ lock. - kfree() -- add_timer() and del_timer() +- add_timer() and timer_delete() Mutex API reference =================== |