Re: [patch 5/8] hrtimer remove state field

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> How do you want to prevent that a signal is dequeued on one CPU while
> the softirq expires the timer on another CPU ? This can not be
> prevented.

This should not be possible in first place, otherwise it's a bug.
The original problem was a broken state machine, is that so hard to 
believe? If there is another problem, please provide more details.

bye, Roman
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