From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:36:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: revert "cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync()" X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc2~11 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=223a10a98135da38d3668973d72cdffb1ced4b7d;p=linux-2.6 revert "cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync()" As pointed out by Jarek Poplawski, the patch [WORKQUEUE]: cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync() commit: 071b638689464c6b39407025eedd810d5b5e6f5d was wrong, it was merged by mistake after that. From the changelog: after this patch: ... delayed_work_timer_fn->__queue_work() in progress. The latter doesn't differ from the caller's POV, it does make a difference if the caller calls flush_workqueue() after cancel_delayed_work(), in that case flush_workqueue() can miss this work_struct. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jarek Poplawski Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 7eae8665ff..ce0719a2cf 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static inline int cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work) { int ret; - ret = del_timer(&work->timer); + ret = del_timer_sync(&work->timer); if (ret) work_clear_pending(&work->work); return ret;