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Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2022 23:08:19 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
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Hi Sebastian,

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 07:26:42PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> That del_timer_sync() at the end is what you want. If the timer is
> pending (as in enqueued in the timer wheel) then it will be removed
> before it is invoked. If the timer's callback is invoked then it will
> spin until the callback is done.

del_timer_sync() is not guaranteed to succeed with add_timer_on() being
used in conjunction with timer_pending() though. That's why I've
abandoned this.

Jason