Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:25:59 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm, compaction: using uninitialized_var insteads setting 'flags' to 0 directly. |
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:18:42 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 10:16 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > >> On 09/29/2014 05:30 AM, Xiubo Li wrote: > >> > Setting 'flags' to zero will be certainly a misleading way to avoid > >> > warning of 'flags' may be used uninitialized. uninitialized_var is > >> > a correct way because the warning is a false possitive. > >> > >> Agree. > >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com> > >> > >> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > >> > > > > I thought we just discussed this when > > mm-compaction-fix-warning-of-flags-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch was > > merged and, although I liked it, it was stated that we shouldn't add any > > new users of uninitialized_var(). > > Yeah but that discussion wasn't unfortunately CC'd on mailing lists. And my > interpretation of the outcome is that maybe we should try :) >
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/27/71
I disagree, can't be bothered getting into a fight over it. I do tend to accidentally let new uses sneak into the tree, but this one is a bit obvious.
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