From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:20:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17534.1165400410@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061206002403.GA4587@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Guys, please, look at actual users of that stuff.
I've been and looked at every single user of work_struct in the kernel (at
least, I think I have), and 99% of those just expect data to be the container
of the work_struct or a data structure linked to it. I had to come up with a
way to deal with cases where data is something from which you can't derive
from the work_struct address, but I'm not sure how best to do that for timers.
I haven't, however, been and looked at timers, so I can't say what actually
applies there.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 17:21 [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety Al Viro
2006-12-02 6:29 ` Daniel Berlin
2006-12-02 12:36 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 9:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-02 12:42 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 20:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-02 10:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-02 12:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-12-02 14:05 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 14:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-12-02 16:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-02 18:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-12-02 18:19 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 18:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-12-02 18:40 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 18:48 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 21:43 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-02 21:59 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 22:13 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-02 22:40 ` Al Viro
2006-12-02 23:06 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-03 10:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-03 11:27 ` Russell King
2006-12-03 15:21 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-03 21:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-03 22:52 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-03 23:15 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-04 11:14 ` David Howells
2006-12-04 12:16 ` Russell King
2006-12-04 13:03 ` David Howells
2006-12-04 13:29 ` Russell King
2006-12-04 14:17 ` David Howells
2006-12-04 14:22 ` Russell King
2006-12-04 11:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 12:22 ` David Howells
2006-12-06 0:24 ` Al Viro
2006-12-06 10:20 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-12-12 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-02 21:32 ` Roman Zippel
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