In init_timers() we need to call init_timers_cpu() for boot cpu. For this, currently we are emulating a call to hotplug notifier. Probably this was done initially to get rid of code redundancy. But this sequence always called a single routine, i.e. init_timers_cpu(), and so calling that routine directly would be better. This would get rid of emulating a notifier call, few typecasts and the extra steps we are doing in notifier callback.
So, this patch calls init_timers_cpu() directly from init_timers().
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- kernel/timer.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 4360edc..d13eb56 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1666,15 +1666,9 @@ static struct notifier_block timers_nb = {
void __init init_timers(void) { - int err; - /* ensure there are enough low bits for flags in timer->base pointer */ BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__(struct tvec_base) & TIMER_FLAG_MASK); - - err = timer_cpu_notify(&timers_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE, - (void *)(long)smp_processor_id()); - BUG_ON(err != NOTIFY_OK); - + BUG_ON(init_timers_cpu(smp_processor_id())); init_timer_stats(); register_cpu_notifier(&timers_nb); open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq);