Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: remove warning from an uninitializedspinlock. was: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2

[Steven Rostedt]

> 
> Introduce a macro for suppressing gcc from generating a warning about a
> probable uninitialized state of a variable.
> 
> Example:
> 
> -	spinlock_t *ptl;
> +	spinlock_t *uninitialized_var(ptl);
> 
> Not a happy solution, but those warnings are obnoxious.
> 
> - Using the usual pointlessly-set-it-to-zero approach wastes several
>   bytes of text.
> 
> - Using a macro means we can (hopefully) do something else if gcc changes
>   cause the `x = x' hack to stop working
> 
> - Using a macro means that people who are worried about hiding true bugs
>   can easily turn it off.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I just stumbled across this being in the kernel. Well, I'm finally glad
it made it in, even though it was suggested one year earlier ;-)

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/11/50

-- Steve

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