+ Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 10:26:28AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > Static variables do not need to be initialised to 0, because compiler > will initialise all uninitialised statics to 0. Thus, remove the > unneeded initializations. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <wangborong@xxxxxxxxxx> Not sure why checkpatch picked me to be a reviewer for this. Nevertheless... > --- > arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c > index 7a2d608fba74..854e90c4e7eb 100644 > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ wrap_mmu_context (struct mm_struct *mm) > flush_bit = xchg(&ia64_ctx.flushmap[i], 0); > ia64_ctx.bitmap[i] ^= flush_bit; > } > - > + This one is unrelated to the patch description. Can you split the patch, or add a couple words about this cleanup? > /* use offset at 300 to skip daemons */ > ia64_ctx.next = find_next_zero_bit(ia64_ctx.bitmap, > ia64_ctx.max_ctx, 300); > @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static inline void up_spin(struct spinaphore *ss) > static struct spinaphore ptcg_sem; > static u16 nptcg = 1; > static int need_ptcg_sem = 1; > -static int toolatetochangeptcgsem = 0; > +static int toolatetochangeptcgsem; There are at least 460 global static variables initialized explicitly. yury:linux$ git grep "^static" | grep "= 0;" | wc -l 460 Are you going to fix them all? If not why this one is so special? Before applying this, let's ask Fenghua - maybe it was his intention to underline that the variable is initialized as 0. Thanks, Yury > /* > * Kernel parameter "nptcg=" overrides max number of concurrent global TLB > -- > 2.35.1