linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix initialization of runqueues

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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:57:42 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix initialization of runqueues

Ingo Molnar, le Wed 02 Aug 2006 17:24:19 +0200, a écrit :
> 
> * Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> 
> we do rely on zero initialization of bss (and percpu) data in a number 
> of places.

The rest of runqueue initialization doesn't rely on that, and as
a result people might think that it is safe to allocate runqueues
dynamically.

Samuel
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