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Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9

From Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9
Date 2015-10-02 23:10 +0200
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 22:04 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > What makes sure, that the timer cannot be readded while that timer
> > callback is running?
> 
> What is exactly your question ?

CPU0   	  	       		CPU1

timer expires
  callback
				add timer
  timer_pending() == true
  ===> del_timer_sync()

I was just curious how this is prevented as I got lost in the
networking code as usual :)

Thanks,

	tglx

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Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Holger Hoffstätte   <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com> - 2015-10-01 13:50 +0200
  Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> - 2015-10-01 14:00 +0200
    Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net> - 2015-10-02 09:00 +0200
      Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Holger Hoffstätte   <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com> - 2015-10-02 09:20 +0200
        Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de> - 2015-10-02 21:30 +0200
        Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 "Thomas D." <whissi@whissi.de> - 2015-10-03 21:30 +0200
    Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-02 22:10 +0200
      Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 23:00 +0200
        Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-02 23:10 +0200
          Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 23:40 +0200

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