linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/4] futex: silence uninitialized warnings

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:02:23 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>, Tom Vaden <tom.vaden@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/4] futex: silence uninitialized warnings

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 10:55 +0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com> wrote:
> >  {
> >         int lock_taken, ret, force_take = 0;
> > -       u32 uval, newval, curval, vpid = task_pid_vnr(task);
> > +       u32 uval, newval, uninitialized_var(curval), vpid = task_pid_vnr(task);
> 
> Do you have some broken compiler? 

I only notice this when testing this patchset on our servers with RHEL
6.4 (gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)).

> I really tend to hate this kind of
> workarounds, because as mentioned, they can actually hide valid
> warnings, and it seems to be due to just stupid compilers. Are we
> perhaps better off trying to get people off the broken compiler
> versions instead?

As Darren points out, this path is unlikely to change, but I have no
particular preference otherwise.

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