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, 2 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index daf9685..e2d662e 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ static inline int timer_pending(const struct timer_list * timer)
 
 extern void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu);
 extern int del_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
-extern int __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 extern int mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
+extern int mod_timer_pending(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 
 /*
  * The jiffies value which is added to now, when there is no timer
@@ -146,25 +146,7 @@ static inline void timer_stats_timer_clear_start_info(struct timer_list *timer)
 }
 #endif
 
-/**
- * add_timer - start a timer
- * @timer: the timer to be added
- *
- * The kernel will do a ->function(->data) callback from the
- * timer interrupt at the ->expires point in the future. The
- * current time is 'jiffies'.
- *
- * The timer's ->expires, ->function (and if the handler uses it, ->data)
- * fields must be set prior calling this function.
- *
- * Timers with an ->expires field in the past will be executed in the next
- * timer tick.
- */
-static inline void add_timer(struct timer_list *timer)
-{
-	BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer));
-	__mod_timer(timer, timer->expires);
-}
+extern void add_timer(struct timer_list *timer);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
   extern int try_to_del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer);