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timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:18:52 +0000 (21:18 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:09:12 +0000 (15:09 +0100)
commit0cc04e80458a822300b93f82ed861a513edde194
treebc7226610a24dfcb8889890c7acfda96299f59c0
parent8553b5f2774a66b1f293b7d783934210afb8f23c
timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions

Tearing down timers which have circular dependencies to other
functionality, e.g. workqueues, where the timer can schedule work and work
can arm timers, is not trivial.

In those cases it is desired to shutdown the timer in a way which prevents
rearming of the timer. The mechanism to do so is to set timer->function to
NULL and use this as an indicator for the timer arming functions to ignore
the (re)arm request.

Add a shutdown argument to the relevant internal functions which makes the
actual deactivation code set timer->function to NULL which in turn prevents
rearming of the timer.

Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220407161745.7d6754b3@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221110064101.429013735@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.253883224@linutronix.de
kernel/time/timer.c