linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v3 1/9] cgroup/pids: Remove superfluous zeroing

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Message-ID: <20240405170548.15234-2-mkoutny@suse.com>
Date: Fri,  5 Apr 2024 19:05:40 +0200
From: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
To: cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 1/9] cgroup/pids: Remove superfluous zeroing

Atomic counters are in kzalloc'd struct. They are zeroed already and
atomic64_t does not need special initialization
(cf kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:trace_counter).

Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup/pids.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/pids.c b/kernel/cgroup/pids.c
index 7695e60bcb40..0e5ec7d59b4d 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/pids.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/pids.c
@@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ pids_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent)
 	if (!pids)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-	atomic64_set(&pids->counter, 0);
 	atomic64_set(&pids->limit, PIDS_MAX);
-	atomic64_set(&pids->events_limit, 0);
 	return &pids->css;
 }
 
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2.44.0