Re: [PATCH] hugetlb_cgroup: explicitly init the early_init field

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On 2014/4/22 15:01, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> Hi, hillf,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> But other fields still missed, if any. Fair?
> 
> yep, it is not fair.
> 
> Sure for this global variable struct, if not initailized, its all
> fields will be initialized
> to 0 or null(depending on its type).  The point here is no to deprive
> the rights of
> compiler/linker of doing this initialization, it is mainly for
> documentation reason.
> Actually this field's value would affect how ->css_alloc should implemented.
> 
> Concretely, if early_init is nonzero, then ->css_alloc *must not* call kzalloc,
> because in cgroup implementation, ->css_alloc will be called earlier before
> mm_init().
> 
> I don't think that the value of one field(early_init) has a so subtle
> restrition on the
> another field(css_alloc) is a good thing, but since it is there,
> docment it should
> be needed.
> 

I don't see how things can be improved by initializing it to 0 explicitly,
if anything needs to be improved.

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