Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: remove warning from an uninitialized spinlock. was: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28T07:03:29Z

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Sorry, no such thing in the docs to do
>
> spinlock_t __attribute__((__uninitialized__)) *ptl;
>
> in order to suppress warnings. But if function size is our concern here, even
> shorter would be:
>

asm("" : "=rm" (ptl)) would do the job, I think, but it's pretty ugly
syntactically.

J