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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tests: initialize sa.sa_flags
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:03:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302130350.GO3604@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160302125901.GF6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Em Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:59:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:55:22PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > 
> > The sa_flags field is not being initialized, so a garbage value is
> > being passed to sigaction.  Initialize it to zero.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c
> > index 7bb0d13..7945462 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c
> > @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static int __test__rdpmc(void)
> >  
> >  	sigfillset(&sa.sa_mask);
> >  	sa.sa_sigaction = segfault_handler;
> > +	sa.sa_flags = 0;
> 
> Would not something like:
> 
> 	sa = (struct sigaction){
> 		.sa_sigaction = segfault_handler,
> 	};
> 	sigfillset(&sa.sa_mask);
> 
> Be better?

I thought about that, but isn't that set in stone? This would be a 4
liner, while his is a one' :-)

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02 12:55 [PATCH] perf tests: initialize sa.sa_flags Colin King
2016-03-02 12:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-02 13:03   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2016-03-02 13:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-02 13:23       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-03 12:19         ` Q: why didn't GCC warn about this uninitialized variable? (was: Re: [PATCH] perf tests: initialize sa.sa_flags) Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 12:25           ` Q: why didn't GCC warn about this uninitialized variable? Colin Ian King
2016-03-03 12:31           ` Måns Rullgård
2016-03-03 12:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 12:49               ` Joe Perches
2016-03-03 12:55           ` Q: why didn't GCC warn about this uninitialized variable? (was: Re: [PATCH] perf tests: initialize sa.sa_flags) Jakub Jelinek
2016-03-03 13:24             ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 13:46               ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-03-03 14:04                 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 13:47               ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 14:19                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-03-03 14:40                   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 14:53                   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 15:04                     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-02 13:02 ` [PATCH] perf tests: initialize sa.sa_flags Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-05  8:20 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tests: Initialize sa.sa_flags tip-bot for Colin Ian King

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