net/sunrpc/svc.c: In function ‘__svc_create_thread’:
net/sunrpc/svc.c:550: warning: ‘oldmask.bits[0u]’ may be used uninitialized in
this function
is a bogus warning, but gcc isn't smart enough to see why. We cannot just
reorganize the code in the function, because we want the set_cpus_allowed()
restore to happen only after the kernel_thread() is forked. Alas, we have
to use cpus_clear() to initialize oldmask instead to keep gcc happy.
Also add some comments to describe what's happening in the function.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/sunrpc/svc.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/net/sunrpc/svc.c~fix 2007-09-02 22:55:25.000000000
+0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/net/sunrpc/svc.c 2007-09-02 23:03:45.000000000
+0530
@@ -568,17 +568,24 @@ __svc_create_thread(svc_thread_fn func,
rqstp->rq_server = serv;
rqstp->rq_pool = pool;
+ /* Only to prevent gcc warning */
+ cpus_clear(oldmask);
+
+ /* Temporarily change CPU affinity before forking svc thread */
if (serv->sv_nrpools > 1)
have_oldmask = svc_pool_map_set_cpumask(pool->sp_id, &oldmask);
+ /* Will inherit current->cpus_allowed */
error = kernel_thread((int (*)(void *)) func, rqstp, 0);
+ /* Restore old cpus_allowed */
if (have_oldmask)
set_cpus_allowed(current, oldmask);
if (error < 0)
goto out_thread;
svc_sock_update_bufs(serv);
+
error = 0;
out:
return error;
