Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:30:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: refactoring timers to avoid init_timer*() |
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Kees Cook wrote: > In the process I noticed that we already have > scripts/coccinelle/api/setup_timer.cocci to detect existing cases of: > > init_timer(t); > t->function = func; > t->data = data; > > And replace it with: setup_timer(t, func, data); > > Another pattern was: > > t->expires = when; > add_timer(t); > > Which can be replaced with mod_timer(t, when); > > So, I've created scripts/coccinelle/api/mod_timer.cocci for the > latter, and done a few passes with manual review. The current result > doesn't fully eliminate init_timer() yet, but it gets much closer. I > just wanted to be sure that this whole clean-up would actually be > welcome before I try to nail down the last many cases.
I think it's worth the trouble, but rather than having a gazillion of commits with the same changelog, we should do that based on a cocci script right before the next rc1 in one go and be done with it.
That will cover most of the init_timer() cases and we can fixup the remaining few oddballs manually after that.
I just noticed that we have the same pattern with hrtimer_init(). I had a stab on adding hrtimer_setup() and friends which takes a function argument and converted the bulk with coccinelle.
82 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-)
We can do that in the same sweep as the init_timer() one and then you can do the canary magic on hrtimers as well.
Thanks,
tglx
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