Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v2)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:48:30 -0600
> Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 around 21:45:46 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c index b8c8ff9..0ab824d 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > @@ -126,14 +126,31 @@  static unsigned int prom_early_allocated
> > > __initdata; 
> > >  void * __init prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size)
> > >  {
> > > +	static u8 *mem = NULL;
> > > +	static size_t free_mem = 0;
> > 
> > Static variables are implicitly 0 and NULL
> 
> That's true for global static variables; is it also true for static
> variables that are local to a function?

It is the same allocation and initialization wise - just not visible to functions 
outside this one.

It's being frowned upon btw, because it's easy to overlook (and for other reasons) - 
please dont use statics inside functions - please put them in front of the function 
or further up into file scope.

	Ingo