6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
[ Upstream commit b0b0aa5d858d4d2fe39a5e4486e0550e858108f6 ]
del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented:
The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not.
This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen anna-maria@linutronix.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 3 +-- Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -1006,8 +1006,7 @@ Another common problem is deleting timer 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. +handle this case.
Locking Speed ============= --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -1027,9 +1027,7 @@ Un altro problema è l'eliminazione dei da soli (chiamando add_timer() alla fine della loro esecuzione). Dato che questo è un problema abbastanza comune con una propensione alle corse critiche, dovreste usare del_timer_sync() -(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso. Questa ritorna il -numero di volte che il temporizzatore è stato interrotto prima che -fosse in grado di fermarlo senza che si riavviasse. +(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso.
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