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Remove reference to timer_exit() from kernel-locking.tmpl, fix typo.

TRIVIAL Rusty Trivial Russell 1 participant 1 message Dec 6, 2002 Documentation

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From: Tommi Virtanen <[email protected]>

timer_exit() isn't a public function, and doesn't even exist in 2.5. 2.4 calls it internally after timers. It seems timer users need not do anything special.

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl renamed from Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl.orig +2 -4
@@ -1055,10 +1055,8 @@
       Another common problem is deleting timers which restart
       themselves (by calling <function>add_timer()</function> at the end 
       of their timer function).  Because this is a fairly common case 
-      which is prone to races, you can put a call to
-      <function>timer_exit()</function> at the very end of your timer function,
-      and user <function>del_timer_sync()</function> 
-      (<filename class=headerfile>include/linux/timer.h</filename>)
+      which is prone to races, you should use <function>del_timer_sync()</function> 
+      (<filename class=headerfile>include/linux/timer.h</filename>) 
       to handle this case.  It returns the number of times the timer 
       had to be deleted before we finally stopped it from adding itself back 
       in.
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