[vbox-dev] Patch for kernel 4.15-rc1

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,
>I had that part. It fails build because the parameter of 
>rtTimerLinuxStdCallback() needs to be "struct timer_list *t". The part I have 
>not gotten right is how one uses that "t" to get the correct value of pSubTimer 
>from "t" using the from_timer() macro.


indeed...
maybe something like this? (sorry can't check right now)
@@ -720,10 +720,18 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart rtTimerLinuxHrCallback(struct hrtimer *pHrTimer)
*
* @param   ulUser      Address of the sub-timer structure.
*/
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 15, 0)
+static void rtTimerLinuxStdCallback(struct timer_list *ulUser)
+#else
static void rtTimerLinuxStdCallback(unsigned long ulUser)
+#endif
{
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 15, 0)
+    PRTTIMER            pTimer    = from_timer(pTimer, ulUser, aSubTimers[iCpu].u.Std.LnxTimer);
+#else
PRTTIMERLNXSUBTIMER pSubTimer = (PRTTIMERLNXSUBTIMER)ulUser;
PRTTIMER            pTimer    = pSubTimer->pParent;
+#endif

RTTIMERLNX_LOG(("stdcallback %p\n", pTimer));
if (RT_UNLIKELY(!rtTimerLnxChangeToCallbackState(pSubTimer)))


G.