linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] mm/gup: Cache dev

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:58:18 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mm/gup: Cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 4:00 AM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:
[..]
> > Does this have defined behavior? I would feel better with " = { 0 }"
> > to be explicit.
>
> Well, it's not allowed by the standart, but GCC allows this.
> You can see a warning with -pedantic.
>
> We use empty-list initializers a lot in the kernel:
> $ git grep 'struct .*= {};' | wc -l
> 997
>
> It should be fine.

Ah, ok. I would still say we should be consistent between the init
syntax for 'ctx' in follow_page() and __get_user_pages(), and why not
go with '= { 0 }', one less unnecessary gcc'ism.