linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix initialization of runqueues

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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:27:43 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix initialization of runqueues

Hi,

There's an odd thing about the nr_active field in arrays of runqueue_t:
it is actually never initialized to 0!...  This doesn't yet trigger a
bug probably because the way runqueues are allocated make it so that
it is already initialized to 0, but that's not a safe way.  Here is a
patch:

Initialize to zero the nr_active field of arrays of runqueues.
(fixes future potential dynamic allocation of runqueues).

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>

--- linux-2.6.17-orig/kernel/sched.c	2006-06-18 19:22:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c	2006-08-02 14:23:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -6132,6 +6132,7 @@

 		for (j = 0; j < 2; j++) {
 			array = rq->arrays + j;
+			array->nr_active = 0;
 			for (k = 0; k < MAX_PRIO; k++) {
 				INIT_LIST_HEAD(array->queue + k);
 				__clear_bit(k, array->bitmap);
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