Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> The deadlock you're referring to is, I assume, del_timer_sync() called
> inside the timer itself? Can you think of any other dangerous cases?
Common seems to be:
CPU#0 CPU#1
timer fires
spinlock()
spinlock() - spinning
del_timer_sync()
-> deadlock.
-Andi
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