From 50e55bf626ad3ebbca45c0c0d03eb1710a139638 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Shi Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:57:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm/page-writeback.c: initialize m_dirty to avoid compile warning When building kernel with gcc 5.2, the below warning is raised: mm/page-writeback.c: In function 'balance_dirty_pages.isra.10': mm/page-writeback.c:1545:17: warning: 'm_dirty' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] unsigned long m_dirty, m_thresh, m_bg_thresh; The m_dirty{thresh, bg_thresh} are initialized in the block of "if (mdtc)", so if mdts is null, they won't be initialized before being used. Initialize m_dirty to zero, also initialize m_thresh and m_bg_thresh to keep consistency. They are used later by if condition: !mdtc || m_dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(m_thresh, m_bg_thresh) If mdtc is null, dirty_freerun_ceiling will not be called at all, so the initialization will not change any behavior other than just ceasing the compile warning. (akpm: the patch actually reduces .text size by ~20 bytes on gcc-4.x.y) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 2c90357c34ea..3e4d65445fa7 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1542,7 +1542,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, for (;;) { unsigned long now = jiffies; unsigned long dirty, thresh, bg_thresh; - unsigned long m_dirty, m_thresh, m_bg_thresh; + unsigned long m_dirty = 0; /* stop bogus uninit warnings */ + unsigned long m_thresh = 0; + unsigned long m_bg_thresh = 0; /* * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked -- GitLab