On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 08:18:20PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 03:37:57PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 3/27/20 3:01 PM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> > Since we always clear node_order before getting it, we can leverage
>> > compiler to do this instead of at run time.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +--
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> > index dfcf2682ed40..49dd1f25c000 100644
>> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> > @@ -5585,7 +5585,7 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>> > static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>> > {
>> > - static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
>> > + static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES] = {0};
>>
>>
>> Looks wrong: now the single instance of node_order is initialized just once by
>> the compiler. And that means that only the first caller of this function
>> gets a zeroed node_order array...
>
>It is also redundant, all static data is 0 initialized in Linux and
>should not be explicitly initialized so it can remain in .bss
>
Yeah, you are right. I missed the static word.
>> > @@ -5595,7 +5595,6 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>> > load = nr_online_nodes;
>> > prev_node = local_node;
>> > - memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
>>
>> ...and all subsequent callers are left with whatever debris is remaining in
>> node_order. So this is not good.
>
>Indeed
>
>Jason
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