mm/page-writeback.c: initialize m_dirty to avoid compile warning
authorYang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:57:10 +0000 (15:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:17:32 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
commit50e55bf626ad3ebbca45c0c0d03eb1710a139638
treec5ec9ea7b3b7c16e9ddf6af986e095c2b5bb5e8e
parent1a47de6e4a8dc2aaf3c3fb544b60730b74abe0f1
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)

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Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page-writeback.c