Re: [tip:x86/apic] x86, PCI, ACPI: Kill private function resource_to_addr() in arch/x86/pci/acpi.c

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Dec 11 2014 - 11:36:52 EST


On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> - struct resource r = {
> >> - .flags = 0
> >> - };
> >> + struct resource r;
> >>
> >> + memset(&r, 0, sizeof(r));
> >
> > What's the point of this change? Both initialize r to 0. memset()
> > generates better code, but that's irrelevant for the problem at hand.
>
> late there is
>
> info->res[info->res_num] = r;
>
> don't want the random pointer in r get copied.

Did you actually read what I wrote?

struct resource r = {
.flags = 0
};

initializes r completely to 0. So how do you get a random pointer in r?

Thanks,

tglx
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