On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > unsigned long expires; > - void (*function)(unsigned long); > + union { > + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer); > + void (*function)(unsigned long); > + }; ... > +#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \ > +{ \ > + .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \ > + .func = (_func), \ > + .expires = (_expires), \ > + .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \ > + __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \ > +} If I remember correctly, this will fail with gcc-4.5 and earlier, which can't use named initializers for anonymous unions. One of these two should work, but they are both ugly: a) don't use a named initializer for the union (a bit fragile) +#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \ +{ \ + .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \ + .expires = (_expires), \ + { .func = (_func) }, \ + .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \ + __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \ +} b) give the union a name (breaks any reference to timer_list->func in C code): + union { + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer); + void (*function)(unsigned long); + } u; ... +#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \ +{ \ + .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \ + .u.func = (_func), \ + .expires = (_expires), \ + .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \ + __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \ +} > +/** > + * prepare_timer - initialize a timer before first use > + * @timer: timer structure to prepare > + * @func: callback to be called when the timer expires > + * @flags %TIMER_* flags that control timer behavior > + * > + * This function initializes a timer_list structure so that it can > + * be used (by calling add_timer() or mod_timer()). > + */ > +static inline void prepare_timer(struct timer_list *timer, > + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer), u32 flags) > +{ > + __init_timer(timer, TIMER_MODERN | flags); > + timer->func = func; > +} > + > +static inline void prepare_timer_on_stack(struct timer_list *timer, > + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer), u32 flags) > +{ > + __init_timer_on_stack(timer, TIMER_MODERN | flags); > + timer->func = func; > +} I fear this breaks lockdep output, which turns the name of the timer into a string that gets printed later. It should work when these are macros, or a macro wrapping an inline function like __init_timer is. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html