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SubjectRe: [PATCH] writeback: initialize m_dirty to avoid compile warning
On 11/18/2015 10:33 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:27:32AM -0800, Shi, Yang wrote:
>>> This was the main reason the code was structured the way it is. If
>>> cgroup writeback is not enabled, any derefs of mdtc variables should
>>> trigger warnings. Ugh... I don't know. Compiler really should be
>>> able to tell this much.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like a compiler problem.
>>
>> If you think it is still good to cease the compile warning, maybe we could
>
> If this is gonna be a problem with new gcc versions, I don't think we
> have any other options. :(
>
>> just assign it to an insane value as what Andrew suggested, maybe
>> 0xdeadbeef.
>
> I'd just keep it at zero. Whatever we do, the effect is gonna be
> difficult to track down - it's not gonna blow up in an obvious way.
> Can you please add a comment tho explaining that this is to work
> around compiler deficiency?

Sure.

Other than this, in v2, I will just initialize m_dirty since compiler
just reports it is uninitialized.

Thanks,
Yang

>
> Thanks.
>



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