The final arrangement of updating timer->expires and calling mod_timer()
used in
commit 
672e7b7c1849c904b2c55185906b3940843c55c6
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Wed Nov 19 09:47:19 2014 +0000
    drm/i915: Don't continually defer the hangcheck
turns out to be very unsafe. Try again.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
                return;
 
        /* Don't continually defer the hangcheck, but make sure it is active */
-       if (!timer_pending(timer))
-               timer->expires = round_jiffies_up(jiffies + DRM_I915_HANGCHECK_JIFFIES);
-       mod_timer(timer, timer->expires);
+       if (timer_pending(timer))
+               return;
+       mod_timer(timer,
+                 round_jiffies_up(jiffies + DRM_I915_HANGCHECK_JIFFIES));
 }
 
 static void ibx_irq_reset(struct drm_device *dev)