Re: [PATCH] vmscan: initialize sc->nr_reclaimed properly take2

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Feb 10 2009 - 17:16:52 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:06:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:58:04 +0900 (JST)
> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -1665,6 +1665,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct z
> > gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > {
> > struct scan_control sc = {
> > + .nr_reclaimed = 0,
> > .gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
> > .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
> > .swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
> > @@ -1686,6 +1687,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
> > unsigned int swappiness)
> > {
> > struct scan_control sc = {
> > + .nr_reclaimed = 0,
> > .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
> > .may_swap = 1,
> > .swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
> > @@ -2245,6 +2247,7 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *z
> > struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
> > int priority;
> > struct scan_control sc = {
> > + .nr_reclaimed = 0,
> > .may_writepage = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE),
> > .may_swap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP),
> > .swap_cluster_max = max_t(unsigned long, nr_pages,
>
> Confused. The compiler already initialises any unmentioned fields to zero,
> so this patch has no effect.

Oh, nice, I was actually testing the wrong thing!

struct foo foo;

wouldn't do that. But

struct foo foo = { .a = 5 };

actually would initialize foo.b = 0.

Sorry. Please ignore this patch and the other one regarding the
explicit initialization of sc.order. :(

Hannes
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