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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jstultz@google.com, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>,
	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers: Add del_time_free() to be called before freeing timers
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 14:30:21 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wg3icnjr+6aU-Wyw+kBoSRBM28P4o4iTgimOWDuuUiStQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220408202230.0ea5388f@rorschach.local.home>

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 2:22 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> We could always use the LSB bit of the function as a "shutdown" flag, where:

While we do that for data pointers, doing it for function pointers is dodgy.

Not all architectures necessarily align code pointers. In fact, I
think that "-Os" on x86 makes all code alignment go away, and so
function pointers have no alignment at all.

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-09  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-07 20:17 [RFC][PATCH] timers: Add del_time_free() to be called before freeing timers Steven Rostedt
2022-04-07 21:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-04-07 22:51   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08  0:58     ` Guenter Roeck
2022-04-08  1:36       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 10:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-08 12:33   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 15:55   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 17:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-04-08 20:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 20:26       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 23:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-04-08 20:29     ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-08 20:58       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-08 21:46         ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-08 21:59           ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-09  0:22       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-09  0:30         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2022-04-09  0:49           ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-09  1:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-04-09  1:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-24 14:16 ` [tip: timers/core] timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]() tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2022-11-24 14:16 ` [tip: timers/core] timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2022-11-24 14:16 ` [tip: timers/core] timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2022-11-24 14:16 ` [tip: timers/core] timers: Silently ignore timers with a NULL function tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2022-11-24 14:16 ` [tip: timers/core] timers: Use del_timer_sync() even on UP tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner

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