On Thu, Nov 24 2022 at 08:37, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2022, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> Tearing down timers which have circular dependencies to other >> functionality, e.g. workqueues, where the timer can schedule work and work >> can arm timers, is not trivial. >> >> In those cases it is desired to shutdown the timer in a way which prevents >> rearming of the timer. The mechanism to do so is to set timer->function to >> NULL and use this as an indicator for the timer arming functions to ignore >> the (re)arm request. >> >> In preparation for that replace the warnings in the relevant code paths >> with checks for timer->function == NULL. If the pointer is NULLL, then > > s/NULLL/NULL Bah. I should have went to the bar instead of trying to fix this.
