There should be no need to hold the base lock during the wakeup. There should be no boosting involved, the wakeup list has its own lock so it should be safe to do this without the lock. Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c index b3c3d3a6216f..716ef84a5d87 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timer.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c @@ -1313,8 +1313,8 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct tvec_base *base) } } } - wakeup_timer_waiters(base); spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock); + wakeup_timer_waiters(base); } #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON -- 2.8.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
