[RFC][PATCH v3 13/33] timers: drm: Use timer_shutdown_sync() before freeing timer

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Fri Nov 4 19:02:10 UTC 2022


On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 08:48:28 +0000
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> If it stays all DRM drivers in one patch then I guess it needs to go via 
> drm-misc, which for i915 would be okay I think in this case since patch 
> is extremely unlikely to clash with anything. Or split it up per driver 
> and then we can handle it in drm-intel-next once core functionality is in.
> 
> We do however have some more calls to del_timer_sync, where freeing is 
> perhaps not immediately next to the site in code, but things definitely 
> get freed like on module unload. Would we need to convert all of them to 
> avoid some, presumably new, warnings?


I'm happy to split this patch up. I just got a bit lazy and started
just grouping via entire subsystems. You should see the networking
patch ;-)

-- Steve


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