Merge 4.14-rc4 into staging-next

We want the staging/iio fixes in here as well to handle merge issues.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index e6789b8757d5..6383c528b148 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -168,6 +168,20 @@ static inline void init_timer_on_stack_key(struct timer_list *timer,
 #define setup_pinned_deferrable_timer_on_stack(timer, fn, data)         \
         __setup_timer_on_stack((timer), (fn), (data), TIMER_DEFERRABLE | TIMER_PINNED)
 
+#define TIMER_DATA_TYPE         unsigned long
+#define TIMER_FUNC_TYPE         void (*)(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)
+
+static inline void timer_setup(struct timer_list *timer,
+                               void (*callback)(struct timer_list *),
+                               unsigned int flags)
+{
+        __setup_timer(timer, (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)callback,
+                      (TIMER_DATA_TYPE)timer, flags);
+}
+
+#define from_timer(var, callback_timer, timer_fieldname) \
+        container_of(callback_timer, typeof(*var), timer_fieldname)
+
 /**
  * timer_pending - is a timer pending?
  * @timer: the timer in question