linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: remove warning from an uninitialized spinlock. was: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:27:26 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	bbpetkov@...oo.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: remove warning from an uninitialized spinlock.
 was: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2

Andrew Morton wrote:
> --- a/mm/memory.c~add-apply_to_page_range-which-applies-a-function-to-a-pte-range-fix
> +++ a/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static int apply_to_pte_range(struct mm_
>  	pte_t *pte;
>  	int err;
>  	struct page *pmd_page;
> -	spinlock_t *ptl;
> +	spinlock_t *ptl = ptl;		/* Suppress gcc warning */
>  

Sigh.  I guess so.

    J
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