[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, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 6a2e5f8dc725..6ed1a826e5ce 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1146,12 +1146,8 @@ fastcall signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
 
 	expire = timeout + jiffies;
 
-	init_timer(&timer);
-	timer.expires = expire;
-	timer.data = (unsigned long) current;
-	timer.function = process_timeout;
-
-	add_timer(&timer);
+	setup_timer(&timer, process_timeout, (unsigned long)current);
+	__mod_timer(&timer, expire);
 	schedule();
 	del_singleshot_timer_sync(&timer);