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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: drop pointless static qualifier in build_zonelists()
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:14 AM Kaitao Cheng <pilgrimtao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is no need to make the 'node_order' variable static
> since new value always be assigned before use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kaitao Cheng <pilgrimtao@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <smuchun@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3334a769eb91..c473c304d09f 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5597,7 +5597,7 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>
> static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> {
> - static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
> + int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];

This isn't pointless. This prevents 4KB stack allocation which might overflow.

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