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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 12/14] writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
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I haven't reviewed this in detail, but what ensures the timer is
synchronously removed when the forker goes away?  I don't see a
del_timer_sync call anywhere.  For now it might be easier to just
skip this patch and leave it for later.