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Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers

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From Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers
Date Thu, 18 May 2017 11:00:01 +0200
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > b) give the union a name (breaks any reference to timer_list->func in C code):
>> >
>> >  +       union {
>> >  +               void            (*func)(struct timer_list *timer);
>> >  +               void            (*function)(unsigned long);
>> >  +       } u;
>>
>> I'll look into that, as it seems a lot safer, and places outside
>> the timer code shouldn't really touch it (although I bet they do,
>> so more fixes for this series..)
>
> Meh.  All the old init_timer users set function directly, so
> I guess we need to use the other approach.

How expensive would it be to add another field to timer_list and
just have both pointers?

      Arnd

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RFC: better timer interface Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 3/9] kthread: remove unused macros Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/9] kthread: remove unused macros Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-05-17 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/9] kthread: remove unused macros Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 8/9] tlclk: switch switchover_timer to a modern timer Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 6/9] s390: switch topology_timer to a modern timer Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 4/9] workqueue: switch to modern timers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 7/9] s390: switch lgr timer to a modern timer Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 9/9] timers: remove old timer initialization macros Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 13:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 9/9] timers: remove old timer initialization macros Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-16 21:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 9/9] timers: remove old timer initialization macros Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 14:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-05-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-16 22:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 10:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-18 11:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-21 09:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-21 14:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-21 20:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-21 20:30 +0200
    RE: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-05-19 12:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-21 09:00 +0200
  [PATCH 5/9] powerpc/numa: switch topology_timer to modern timer Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 14:00 +0200
  Re: RFC: better timer interface Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-16 17:50 +0200
    Re: RFC: better timer interface Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-16 18:00 +0200
      Re: RFC: better timer interface Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-16 22:30 +0200
        Re: RFC: better timer interface Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-18 10:30 +0200
        Re: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-21 19:20 +0200
          Re: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-21 20:20 +0200
            Re: RFC: better timer interface Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-22 13:30 +0200
              Re: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-22 21:30 +0200
            RE: RFC: better timer interface David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-05-23 13:40 +0200
              RE: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-23 14:00 +0200
                RE: RFC: better timer interface David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-05-23 15:00 +0200
                RE: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-23 15:10 +0200
          Re: RFC: better timer interface Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-22 15:40 +0200
            Re: RFC: better timer interface Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-22 21:20 +0200

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