+/**
+ * timer_reduce - Modify a timer's timeout if it would reduce the timeout
+ * @timer: The timer to be modified
+ * @expires: New timeout in jiffies
+ *
+ * timer_reduce() is very similar to mod_timer(), except that it will only
+ * modify a running timer if that would reduce the expiration time (it will
+ * start a timer that isn't running).
+ */
+int timer_reduce(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires)
+{
+ return __mod_timer(timer, expires, MOD_TIMER_REDUCE);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(timer_reduce);
+