[PATCH] net: mvmdio: fix wait_event_timeout() being called with a 1 jiffy timeout.

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Dec 3 08:34:12 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:16:00PM +0100, Nicolas Schichan wrote:
> If a timer interrupt kicks right after the wait_event_timeout() call,
> we may endup a reporting timeout before the timeout really occured.

Please see my reply to Jason Cooper about this in the thread
"Spurious timeouts in mvmdio".



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