The patch titled Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: use setup_deferrable_timer has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: use setup_deferrable_timer Use setup_deferrable_timer() instead of init_timer_deferrable() to simplify the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8e3d4280a34facbc007346f31df833cec28801e.1488070291.git.geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -649,9 +649,8 @@ int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom spin_lock_init(&dom->lock); - init_timer_deferrable(&dom->period_timer); - dom->period_timer.function = writeout_period; - dom->period_timer.data = (unsigned long)dom; + setup_deferrable_timer(&dom->period_timer, writeout_period, + (unsigned long)dom); dom->dirty_limit_tstamp = jiffies; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx are writeback-use-setup_deferrable_timer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html