[PATCH] introduce setup_timer() helper

Every user of init_timer() also needs to initialize ->function and ->data
fields.  This patch adds a simple setup_timer() helper for that.

The schedule_timeout() is patched as an example of usage.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 3340f3bd135d..ddd5bbe1fc8e 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ extern struct timer_base_s __init_timer_base;
 
 void fastcall init_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
 
+static inline void setup_timer(struct timer_list * timer,
+                                void (*function)(unsigned long),
+                                unsigned long data)
+{
+        timer->function = function;
+        timer->data = data;
+        init_timer(timer);
+}
+
 /***
  * timer_pending - is a timer pending?
  * @timer: the timer in question