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| author | Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> | 2010-10-20 15:57:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-10-21 17:30:06 +0200 |
| commit | dd6414b50fa2b1cd247a8aa8f8bd42414b7453e1 (patch) | |
| tree | d6572c35cf1997e2d18e451cb44742c89723d804 /include/linux/timer.h | |
| parent | 2bf1c05e3c406925e498d06da66b4828f0209ea6 (diff) | |
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timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers
Currently, you have to just define a delayed_work uninitialised, and then
initialise it before first use. That's a tad clumsy. At risk of playing
mind-games with the compiler, fooling it into doing pointer arithmetic
with compile-time-constants, this lets clients properly initialise delayed
work with deferrable timers statically.
This patch was inspired by the issues which lead Artem Bityutskiy to
commit 8eab945c5616fc984 ("sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue
deferrable").
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/timer.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/timer.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h index 1794674c1a52..cbfb7a355d30 100644 --- a/include/linux/timer.h +++ b/include/linux/timer.h @@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ extern struct tvec_base boot_tvec_bases; #define __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(_kn) #endif +/* + * Note that all tvec_bases are 2 byte aligned and lower bit of + * base in timer_list is guaranteed to be zero. Use the LSB to + * indicate whether the timer is deferrable. + * + * A deferrable timer will work normally when the system is busy, but + * will not cause a CPU to come out of idle just to service it; instead, + * the timer will be serviced when the CPU eventually wakes up with a + * subsequent non-deferrable timer. + */ +#define TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG (0x1) + #define TIMER_INITIALIZER(_function, _expires, _data) { \ .entry = { .prev = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \ .function = (_function), \ @@ -59,6 +71,19 @@ extern struct tvec_base boot_tvec_bases; __FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \ } +#define TBASE_MAKE_DEFERRED(ptr) ((struct tvec_base *) \ + ((unsigned char *)(ptr) + TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG)) + +#define TIMER_DEFERRED_INITIALIZER(_function, _expires, _data) {\ + .entry = { .prev = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \ + .function = (_function), \ + .expires = (_expires), \ + .data = (_data), \ + .base = TBASE_MAKE_DEFERRED(&boot_tvec_bases), \ + __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER( \ + __FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \ + } + #define DEFINE_TIMER(_name, _function, _expires, _data) \ struct timer_list _name = \ TIMER_INITIALIZER(_function, _expires, _data) |