Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: + fix-next_timer_interrupt-for-hrtimer.patch added to -mm tree | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:36:46 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:57 -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > This is racy on SMP. nanosleep hrtimers are on the stack and can go away > > due to a signal. posix timers can be removed and destroyed on another > > CPU. > > This should be fixed. But just as a note, we can tolerate some removed > timer values values as it would be just an extra timer interrupt.
The problem is not the removed timer. Its the reference to a destroyed object you hold.
tglx
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