timer: add on-stack deferrable timer interfaces

In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to
use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits.  Add
interfaces to support this for the IPS driver.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index ee305c8d4e18..efde11e197c4 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -577,6 +577,19 @@ static void __init_timer(struct timer_list *timer,
 	lockdep_init_map(&timer->lockdep_map, name, key, 0);
 }
 
+void setup_deferrable_timer_on_stack_key(struct timer_list *timer,
+					 const char *name,
+					 struct lock_class_key *key,
+					 void (*function)(unsigned long),
+					 unsigned long data)
+{
+	timer->function = function;
+	timer->data = data;
+	init_timer_on_stack_key(timer, name, key);
+	timer_set_deferrable(timer);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(setup_deferrable_timer_on_stack_key);
+
 /**
  * init_timer_key - initialize a timer
  * @timer: the timer to be initialized