From: Corey Minyard Clean up the timer shutdown handling in the IPMI driver. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 17 +++++------------ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-ipmi-timer-shutdown-cleanup drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- 25/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-ipmi-timer-shutdown-cleanup Fri May 20 15:57:47 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c Fri May 20 15:57:47 2005 @@ -2747,16 +2747,13 @@ static struct timer_list ipmi_timer; the queue and this silliness can go away. */ #define IPMI_REQUEST_EV_TIME (1000 / (IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME)) -static volatile int stop_operation = 0; -static volatile int timer_stopped = 0; +static atomic_t stop_operation; static unsigned int ticks_to_req_ev = IPMI_REQUEST_EV_TIME; static void ipmi_timeout(unsigned long data) { - if (stop_operation) { - timer_stopped = 1; + if (atomic_read(&stop_operation)) return; - } ticks_to_req_ev--; if (ticks_to_req_ev == 0) { @@ -2766,8 +2763,7 @@ static void ipmi_timeout(unsigned long d ipmi_timeout_handler(IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME); - ipmi_timer.expires += IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES; - add_timer(&ipmi_timer); + mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); } @@ -3130,11 +3126,8 @@ static __exit void cleanup_ipmi(void) /* Tell the timer to stop, then wait for it to stop. This avoids problems with race conditions removing the timer here. */ - stop_operation = 1; - while (!timer_stopped) { - set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - schedule_timeout(1); - } + atomic_inc(&stop_operation); + del_timer_sync(&ipmi_timer); remove_proc_entry(proc_ipmi_root->name, &proc_root); _