Re: [PATCH] mm/ksm.c - Fix compile warnings (PS ignore myformatting in previous email)

From: askb
Date: Wed Nov 04 2009 - 06:30:53 EST


On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:57 +0100, walter harms wrote:
>
> askb schrieb:
> > Found the compiler warning on linux-next:
> >
> > mm/ksm.c: In function âksm_scan_threadâ:
> > mm/ksm.c:1083: warning: âpage2[0u]â may be used uninitialized in this
> > function
> > mm/ksm.c:1083: note: âpage2[0u]â was declared here
> >
> > fix for the above warning:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anil SB <askb23@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
> > index bef1af4..2ea0fd3 100644
> > --- a/mm/ksm.c
> > +++ b/mm/ksm.c
> > @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ static void stable_tree_append(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
> > */
> > static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
> > {
> > - struct page *page2[1];
> > + struct page *page2[1] = {NULL};
> > struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
> > unsigned int checksum;
> > int err;
> >
> >
>
> a 1 element array looks strange, did you look what kind of magic is here used ?
>
>From my understanding, it is used for place holder to check and return
an identical page from stable_tree_search(). Can we do with a double
indirection to struct page instead of the above?
PS point me in the right direction.

Regards.

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