Re: Doubt in Kernel Timers

Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:36:02 +0300


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:55:17 -0800 (PST)
sekhar raja <manamraja@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What do i mean is with out Doing add_timer() can we
> use del_timer().

george anzinger is right, you may del_timer() at any time.
If the timer was actually queued, del_timer() returns 0, otherwise, it
returns 1.

But you should use del_timer_sync() to be sure, that your timer function
is not currentky running on other CPU.

> Thanks in Advance
> -Rajasekhar

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WBR. //s0mbre
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