del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the
timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented:
The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not.
This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really
returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code
was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de
calling add_timer() at the end of their timer function).
Because this is a fairly common case which is prone to races, you should
use del_timer_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) 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.
+handle this case.
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da soli (chiamando add_timer() alla fine della loro esecuzione).
Dato che questo è un problema abbastanza comune con una propensione
alle corse critiche, dovreste usare del_timer_sync()
-(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso. Questa ritorna il
-numero di volte che il temporizzatore è stato interrotto prima che
-fosse in grado di fermarlo senza che si riavviasse.
+(``include/linux/timer.h``) per gestire questo caso.
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