Re: Kernel timers problem

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

vaishali paisal wrote:

> so each time a connection is added hci_conn_add is called and a new timer would 
> be initialised through hci_conn_init_timer.

Here is the interesting part of hci_conn_add() :

struct hci_conn *hci_conn_add(struct hci_dev *hdev, int type, bdaddr_t *dst)
{
        struct hci_conn *conn;

        BT_DBG("%s dst %s", hdev->name, batostr(dst));

        if (!(conn = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hci_conn), GFP_ATOMIC)))
                return NULL;
        memset(conn, 0, sizeof(struct hci_conn));

       [...]

        hci_conn_init_timer(conn);

       [...]
}

Conclusion: a new "hci_conn" structure is allocated (using kmalloc) 
everytime this function is called. And there is one "struct timer_list" 
in each "hci_conn" structure.

Others: If I say something wrong, don't hesitate to tell me.

Thomas
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