On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> ah, finally I see how can the timer->lock can have made the kernel
> stable again!
>
> run_all_timers can still definitely run on x86 too if the local cpu
> timer runs on top of an irq handler:
as i told you ...
i've added the TIMER_BH thing to the 2.4 patch to ensure timer-fn
single-threadedness.
this issue has been fixed in 2.6 by the removal of TIMER_BH.
Ingo
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