Re: [RT PATCH 1/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:14:58 +0200
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 07/14/2016 06:13 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>  
> >> -# define wakeup_timer_waiters(b)	wake_up(&(b)->wait_for_running_timer)
> >> +# define wakeup_timer_waiters(b)	wake_up_all(&(b)->wait_for_running_timer)  
> > 
> > OK, I just received this patch (way after patch 2)
> > 
> > I'm assuming that patch two was done such that you don't do a
> > "wake_up_all" under a spinlock.  
> 
> No. I pulled in new timer code in and had to redo this part of RT.
> 
> While doing so I noticed that we drop the base lock during timer
> invocations and so it could be possible that we have two invocations
> of del_timer_sync() on a timer on the same "base" (one after the
> other). This is patch #1.
> 
> After that I saw that we do the wake up under the base lock but there
> is no reason for it. So here is patch #2.
> 
> Patch #1 is something that could happen in theory and I did not run in
> any problem.
>

OK, so patch 2 was just discovered by reviewing code?

-- Steve
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