linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, compaction: using uninitialized_var insteads setting 'flags' to 0 directly.

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:27:23 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mgorman@...e.de, rientjes@...gle.com,
	minchan@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, compaction: using uninitialized_var insteads setting
 'flags' to 0 directly.

On 09/29/2014 05:30 AM, Xiubo Li wrote:
> Setting 'flags' to zero will be certainly a misleading way to avoid
> warning of 'flags' may be used uninitialized. uninitialized_var is
> a correct way because the warning is a false possitive.

Agree.

> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

> ---
>  mm/compaction.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 92075d5..59a116d 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
>  {
>  	int nr_scanned = 0, total_isolated = 0;
>  	struct page *cursor, *valid_page = NULL;
> -	unsigned long flags = 0;
> +	unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
>  	bool locked = false;
>  	unsigned long blockpfn = *start_pfn;
>  
> @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>  	unsigned long nr_scanned = 0, nr_isolated = 0;
>  	struct list_head *migratelist = &cc->migratepages;
>  	struct lruvec *lruvec;
> -	unsigned long flags = 0;
> +	unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
>  	bool locked = false;
>  	struct page *page = NULL, *valid_page = NULL;
>  
> 

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