Re: [PATCH] timer: Provide wrappers safe for use with LOCKDEP

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 01:28:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Under LOCKDEP, the timer lock_class_key (set up in __setup_timer) needs
> to be tied to the caller's context, so an inline for timer_setup()
> won't work. We do, however, want to keep the inline version around for
> argument type checking, though, so this provides macro wrappers in the
> LOCKDEP case.

Heh, when I tried to do inline setup_timer Arnd had actually pointed
that out in the review..