The patch prepares to dynamically allocate the timer device.
It changes all reference to the global static variable to a
globally defined pointer to the global static variable.

That makes all the code to manage a pointer instead of a static
variable.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-netns/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-netns.orig/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ linux-2.6-netns/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static __u32 rt_sernum;
 
 static void fib6_gc_timer_cb(unsigned long arg);
 
-static DEFINE_TIMER(ip6_fib_timer, fib6_gc_timer_cb, 0, (unsigned 
long)&init_net);
+static DEFINE_TIMER(__ip6_fib_timer, fib6_gc_timer_cb, 0, (unsigned 
long)&init_net);
+static struct timer_list *ip6_fib_timer = &__ip6_fib_timer;
 
 static struct fib6_walker_t fib6_walker_list = {
        .prev   = &fib6_walker_list,
@@ -666,15 +667,15 @@ static int fib6_add_rt2node(struct fib6_
 
 static __inline__ void fib6_start_gc(struct rt6_info *rt)
 {
-       if (ip6_fib_timer.expires == 0 &&
+       if (ip6_fib_timer->expires == 0 &&
            (rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_EXPIRES|RTF_CACHE)))
-               mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
+               mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
 }
 
 void fib6_force_start_gc(void)
 {
-       if (ip6_fib_timer.expires == 0)
-               mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
+       if (ip6_fib_timer->expires == 0)
+               mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1441,7 +1442,7 @@ void fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires, 
        } else {
                local_bh_disable();
                if (!spin_trylock(&fib6_gc_lock)) {
-                       mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + HZ);
+                       mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + HZ);
                        local_bh_enable();
                        return;
                }
@@ -1454,10 +1455,10 @@ void fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires, 
        fib6_clean_all(net, fib6_age, 0, NULL);
 
        if (gc_args.more)
-               mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
+               mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + ip6_rt_gc_interval);
        else {
-               del_timer(&ip6_fib_timer);
-               ip6_fib_timer.expires = 0;
+               del_timer(ip6_fib_timer);
+               ip6_fib_timer->expires = 0;
        }
        spin_unlock_bh(&fib6_gc_lock);
 }
@@ -1533,7 +1534,7 @@ void __init fib6_init(void)
 
 void fib6_gc_cleanup(void)
 {
-       del_timer(&ip6_fib_timer);
+       del_timer(ip6_fib_timer);
        unregister_pernet_subsys(&fib6_net_ops);
        kmem_cache_destroy(fib6_node_kmem);
 }

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