[PATCH 09/12] hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event
From: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
Date: Wed Mar 11 2026 - 06:19:38 EST
This pointer indirection is a remnant from when ktime_t was a struct,
today it is pointless.
Drop the pointer indirection.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/timer.h | 7 +++----
kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/timer.h b/include/trace/events/timer.h
index a54613f59e55..07cbb9836b91 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/timer.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/timer.h
@@ -254,14 +254,13 @@ TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_start,
/**
* hrtimer_expire_entry - called immediately before the hrtimer callback
* @hrtimer: pointer to struct hrtimer
- * @now: pointer to variable which contains current time of the
- * timers base.
+ * @now: variable which contains current time of the timers base.
*
* Allows to determine the timer latency.
*/
TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_expire_entry,
- TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *hrtimer, ktime_t *now),
+ TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *hrtimer, ktime_t now),
TP_ARGS(hrtimer, now),
@@ -273,7 +272,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_expire_entry,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->hrtimer = hrtimer;
- __entry->now = *now;
+ __entry->now = now;
__entry->function = ACCESS_PRIVATE(hrtimer, function);
),
diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index 226cac8c82cc..d350bceb3c95 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hrtimer_active);
* __run_hrtimer() invocations.
*/
static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base, struct hrtimer_clock_base *base,
- struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t *now, unsigned long flags)
+ struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t now, unsigned long flags)
__must_hold(&cpu_base->lock)
{
enum hrtimer_restart (*fn)(struct hrtimer *);
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ static void __hrtimer_run_queues(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base, ktime_t now,
if (basenow < hrtimer_get_softexpires(timer))
break;
- __run_hrtimer(cpu_base, base, timer, &basenow, flags);
+ __run_hrtimer(cpu_base, base, timer, basenow, flags);
if (active_mask == HRTIMER_ACTIVE_SOFT)
hrtimer_sync_wait_running(cpu_base, flags);
}
--
2.53.0