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From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: timers: Move clearing of base::timer_running under base::lock
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On 2020-12-11 15:36:27 [+0100], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> So the change at hand does not make things worse, right?

Correct. This *ping*-*pong* was there before this patch because
->running_timer is always cleared after the callback finishes.

I was just curious why out of a sudden there are *that* many users of
the corner case. 

> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx

Sebastian