[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER

Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a6329fa8f862..0166ea15c9ee 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -368,10 +368,8 @@ int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages)
 static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
 static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);
 
-static struct timer_list wb_timer =
-                        TIMER_INITIALIZER(wb_timer_fn, 0, 0);
-static struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer =
-                        TIMER_INITIALIZER(laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
+static DEFINE_TIMER(wb_timer, wb_timer_fn, 0, 0);
+static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
 
 /*
  * Periodic writeback of "old" data.