The patch titled
Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: convert timers to use timer_setup()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup.patch
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: convert timers to use timer_setup()
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer
to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and
from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171016225913.GA99214@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup mm/page-writeback.c
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -628,9 +628,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wb_writeout_inc);
* On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use
* deferred timers so count with missed periods.
*/
-static void writeout_period(unsigned long t)
+static void writeout_period(struct timer_list *t)
{
- struct wb_domain *dom = (void *)t;
+ struct wb_domain *dom = from_timer(dom, t, period_timer);
int miss_periods = (jiffies - dom->period_time) /
VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN;
@@ -653,8 +653,7 @@ int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom
spin_lock_init(&dom->lock);
- setup_deferrable_timer(&dom->period_timer, writeout_period,
- (unsigned long)dom);
+ timer_setup(&dom->period_timer, writeout_period, TIMER_DEFERRABLE);
dom->dirty_limit_tstamp = jiffies;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
writeback-convert-timers-to-use-timer_setup.patch
sh-boot-add-static-stack-protector-to-pre-kernel.patch
makefile-move-stackprotector-availability-out-of-kconfig.patch
makefile-introduce-config_cc_stackprotector_auto.patch
makefile-introduce-config_cc_stackprotector_auto-fix.patch
makefile-introduce-config_cc_stackprotector_auto-fix-2.patch
makefile-introduce-config_cc_stackprotector_auto-fix-3.patch
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