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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/posix-timers.c | |
| parent | 2bf1c05e3c406925e498d06da66b4828f0209ea6 (diff) | |
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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>
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