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authorPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>2010-10-20 15:57:33 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-10-21 17:30:06 +0200
commitdd6414b50fa2b1cd247a8aa8f8bd42414b7453e1 (patch)
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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 'kernel/timer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/timer.c15
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 97bf05baade7..72853b256ff2 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -88,18 +88,6 @@ struct tvec_base boot_tvec_bases;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_tvec_bases);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tvec_base *, tvec_bases) = &boot_tvec_bases;
-/*
- * 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)
-
/* Functions below help us manage 'deferrable' flag */
static inline unsigned int tbase_get_deferrable(struct tvec_base *base)
{
@@ -113,8 +101,7 @@ static inline struct tvec_base *tbase_get_base(struct tvec_base *base)
static inline void timer_set_deferrable(struct timer_list *timer)
{
- timer->base = ((struct tvec_base *)((unsigned long)(timer->base) |
- TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG));
+ timer->base = TBASE_MAKE_DEFERRED(timer->base);
}
static inline void