From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
To: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: "arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] timer: permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:19:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285913973.11684.63.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285874789-1481-2-git-send-email-ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 21:26 +0200, ext Phil Carmody wrote:
> 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 8eab945c5616fc984e97b922d6a2559be93f39a1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 19:26 timer: permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers Phil Carmody
2010-09-30 19:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Phil Carmody
2010-10-01 6:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-09-30 20:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-30 20:50 ` Phil Carmody
2010-09-30 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
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