[PATCH] introduce setup_timer() helper
Every user of init_timer() also needs to initialize ->function and ->data
fields. This patch adds a simple setup_timer() helper for that.
The schedule_timeout() is patched as an example of usage.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 6a2e5f8..6ed1a82 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1146,12 +1146,8 @@
expire = timeout + jiffies;
- init_timer(&timer);
- timer.expires = expire;
- timer.data = (unsigned long) current;
- timer.function = process_timeout;
-
- add_timer(&timer);
+ setup_timer(&timer, process_timeout, (unsigned long)current);
+ __mod_timer(&timer, expire);
schedule();
del_singleshot_timer_sync(&timer);