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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>, <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: sched/fair: avoid using uninitialized variable in preferred_group_nid()
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:25:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C2139202000078000588F7@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)

At least some gcc versions - validly afaict - warn about potentially
using max_group uninitialized: There's no way the compiler can prove
that the body of the conditional where it and max_faults get set/
updated gets executed; in fact, without knowing all the details of
other scheduler code, I can't prove this either.

Generally the necessary change would appear to be to clear max_group
prior to entering the inner loop, and break out of the outer loop when
it ends up being all clear after the inner one. This, however, seems
inefficient, and afaict the same effect can be achieved by exiting the
outer loop when max_faults is still zero after the inner loop. For the
compiler's sake, mark max_group uninitialized, as we're now able to
prove it's not actually being used uninitalized anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 3.19-rc5/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ 3.19-rc5-sched-fair-preferred-group-nid/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ static int preferred_group_nid(struct ta
 	nodes = node_online_map;
 	for (dist = sched_max_numa_distance; dist > LOCAL_DISTANCE; dist--) {
 		unsigned long max_faults = 0;
-		nodemask_t max_group;
+		nodemask_t uninitialized_var(max_group);
 		int a, b;
 
 		/* Are there nodes at this distance from each other? */
@@ -1764,6 +1764,8 @@ static int preferred_group_nid(struct ta
 			}
 		}
 		/* Next round, evaluate the nodes within max_group. */
+		if (!max_faults)
+			break;
 		nodes = max_group;
 	}
 	return nid;




             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23  8:25 Jan Beulich [this message]
2015-01-23  9:54 ` sched/fair: avoid using uninitialized variable in preferred_group_nid() Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-23 10:01   ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-28 14:29 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Avoid " tip-bot for Jan Beulich
2015-01-28 14:46   ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-28 15:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-09  8:21       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-09 11:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-09 11:41           ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-18 17:10           ` [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Avoid some pointless iterations tip-bot for Jan Beulich

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