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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvmdio: fix wait_event_timeout() being called
	with a 1 jiffy timeout.
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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".