Merge commit '3728e6a255b5' into patchwork

* commit '3728e6a255b5': (904 commits)
  Linux 4.14-rc5
  x86/microcode: Do the family check first
  locking/lockdep: Disable cross-release features for now
  x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode
  mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead
  mm: page_vma_mapped: ensure pmd is loaded with READ_ONCE outside of lock
  kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
  fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode
  fs/mpage.c: fix mpage_writepage() for pages with buffers
  linux/kernel.h: add/correct kernel-doc notation
  tty: fall back to N_NULL if switching to N_TTY fails during hangup
  Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed"
  mm/cma.c: take __GFP_NOWARN into account in cma_alloc()
  scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n'
  userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transfer
  mm: only display online cpus of the numa node
  mm: remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE in page_vma_mapped_walk().
  mm/mempolicy: fix NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT counter
  include/linux/of.h: provide of_n_{addr,size}_cells wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  mm/madvise.c: add description for MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
  ...

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index e6789b8757d5..6383c528b148 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -168,6 +168,20 @@ static inline void init_timer_on_stack_key(struct timer_list *timer,
 #define setup_pinned_deferrable_timer_on_stack(timer, fn, data)		\
 	__setup_timer_on_stack((timer), (fn), (data), TIMER_DEFERRABLE | TIMER_PINNED)
 
+#define TIMER_DATA_TYPE		unsigned long
+#define TIMER_FUNC_TYPE		void (*)(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)
+
+static inline void timer_setup(struct timer_list *timer,
+			       void (*callback)(struct timer_list *),
+			       unsigned int flags)
+{
+	__setup_timer(timer, (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)callback,
+		      (TIMER_DATA_TYPE)timer, flags);
+}
+
+#define from_timer(var, callback_timer, timer_fieldname) \
+	container_of(callback_timer, typeof(*var), timer_fieldname)
+
 /**
  * timer_pending - is a timer pending?
  * @timer: the timer in question