On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
> unsigned long expires;
> - void (*function)(unsigned long);
> + union {
> + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer);
> + void (*function)(unsigned long);
> + };
...
> +#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \
> +{ \
> + .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \
> + .func = (_func), \
> + .expires = (_expires), \
> + .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \
> + __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \
> +}
If I remember correctly, this will fail with gcc-4.5 and earlier, which can't
use named initializers for anonymous unions. One of these two should
work, but they are both ugly:
a) don't use a named initializer for the union (a bit fragile)
+#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \
+{ \
+ .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \
+ .expires = (_expires), \
+ { .func = (_func) }, \
+ .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \
+ __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \
+}
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;
...
+#define INIT_TIMER(_func, _expires, _flags) \
+{ \
+ .entry = { .next = TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC }, \
+ .u.func = (_func), \
+ .expires = (_expires), \
+ .flags = TIMER_MODERN | (_flags), \
+ __TIMER_LOCKDEP_MAP_INITIALIZER(__FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__)) \
+}
> +/**
> + * prepare_timer - initialize a timer before first use
> + * @timer: timer structure to prepare
> + * @func: callback to be called when the timer expires
> + * @flags %TIMER_* flags that control timer behavior
> + *
> + * This function initializes a timer_list structure so that it can
> + * be used (by calling add_timer() or mod_timer()).
> + */
> +static inline void prepare_timer(struct timer_list *timer,
> + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer), u32 flags)
> +{
> + __init_timer(timer, TIMER_MODERN | flags);
> + timer->func = func;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void prepare_timer_on_stack(struct timer_list *timer,
> + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer), u32 flags)
> +{
> + __init_timer_on_stack(timer, TIMER_MODERN | flags);
> + timer->func = func;
> +}
I fear this breaks lockdep output, which turns the name of
the timer into a string that gets printed later. It should work
when these are macros, or a macro wrapping an inline function
like __init_timer is.
Arnd
