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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 /kernel/timer.c | |
| parent | 2bf1c05e3c406925e498d06da66b4828f0209ea6 (diff) | |
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.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 97bf05baade..72853b256ff 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 |