Re: [PATCH 3/3] futex: add futex_q static initializer

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 08 2010 - 14:40:00 EST


On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 17:42 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > +#define FUTEX_Q_INIT \
> > > + { /* list gets initialized in queue_me()*/ \
> > > + .task = NULL, NULL, FUTEX_KEY_INIT \
> > > + , NULL, NULL, NULL, FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY }
> > > +
> >
> > That should be a static readonly variable with a proper C99
> > initializer.
>
> Well, it doesn't need to actually be an existing variable, but yeah it
> should definately use C99 initializers.

If you have multiple instances of q = q_init; the static variable is
more efficient vs. code/data size

Thanks,

tglx


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