timers: add mod_timer_pending()

Impact: new timer API

Based on an idea from Martin Josefsson with the help of
Patrick McHardy and Stephen Hemminger:

introduce the mod_timer_pending() API which is a mod_timer()
offspring that is an invariant on already removed timers.

(regular mod_timer() re-activates non-pending timers.)

This is useful for the networking code in that it can
allow unserialized mod_timer_pending() timer-forwarding
calls, but a single del_timer*() will stop the timer
from being reactivated again.

Also while at it:

- optimize the regular mod_timer() path some more, the
  timer-stat and a debug check was needlessly duplicated
  in __mod_timer().

- make the exports come straight after the function, as
  most other exports in timer.c already did.

- eliminate __mod_timer() as an external API, change the
  users to mod_timer().

The regular mod_timer() code path is not impacted
significantly, due to inlining optimizations and due to
the simplifications.

Based-on-patch-from: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_driver.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_driver.c
index 69c0ce321b4e..cb9daa6ac029 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_driver.c
@@ -2715,7 +2715,7 @@ static void ipath_hol_signal_up(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
  * to prevent HoL blocking, then start the HoL timer that
  * periodically continues, then stop procs, so they can detect
  * link down if they want, and do something about it.
- * Timer may already be running, so use __mod_timer, not add_timer.
+ * Timer may already be running, so use mod_timer, not add_timer.
  */
 void ipath_hol_down(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
 {
@@ -2724,7 +2724,7 @@ void ipath_hol_down(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
         dd->ipath_hol_next = IPATH_HOL_DOWNCONT;
         dd->ipath_hol_timer.expires = jiffies +
                 msecs_to_jiffies(ipath_hol_timeout_ms);
-        __mod_timer(&dd->ipath_hol_timer, dd->ipath_hol_timer.expires);
+        mod_timer(&dd->ipath_hol_timer, dd->ipath_hol_timer.expires);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2763,7 +2763,7 @@ void ipath_hol_event(unsigned long opaque)
         else {
                 dd->ipath_hol_timer.expires = jiffies +
                         msecs_to_jiffies(ipath_hol_timeout_ms);
-                __mod_timer(&dd->ipath_hol_timer,
+                mod_timer(&dd->ipath_hol_timer,
                         dd->ipath_hol_timer.expires);
         }
 }