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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: unix: make some variables constant
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:47:43 +0200
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Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 =C3=A0 13:24 +0800, Changli Gao a =C3=A9crit :
> And since ctl_table.data is initialized later, we don't need to initi=
alize
> the data member of the template variable unix_table.
>=20

The init cost is nothing, since its a data blob that must be there
anyway.

We could even avoid the kmemdup() if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set