On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > Looking through the dmfe code, I noticed yet another possible race. > > > A race between the .suspend, and a timer that serves both as a watchdog, > > > and link state detector. > > > Again I need to prevent it from running during the suspend/resume, but > > > how? > > > > > > I can use del_timer in .suspend, and mod_timer in .resume, but that > > > doesn't protect against > > > race with already running timer. > > > I can use del_timer_sync, but it states that it is useless if timer > > > re-enables itself, and I agree with that. > > > In dmfe case the timer does re-enable itself. > > > > That comment isn't right. del_timer_sync works perfectly well even if > > the timer routine re-enables itself, provided it stops doing so after a > > small number of iterations. > Thanks for the info. but.... > Due to the "don't access the hardware, while powered-off" rule, I must know > that the timer isn't running. > and won't be. > So what function to use (if possible) to be sure that the timer won't run > anymore? > (Taking in the account the fact that it re-enables itself)
Use del_timer_sync(). It guarantees that when it returns, the timer will be stopped and the timer routine will no longer be running on any CPU. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
