Re: [PATCH] rcuperf: fix duplicate struct initializer

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Building with "make W=1" shows a set of new warnings in the rcuperf code:
>>
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:282:11: error: initialized field overwritten [-Werror=override-init]
>>   .async  = srcu_call_rcu,
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:282:11: note: (near initialization for 'sched_ops.async')
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:283:16: error: initialized field overwritten [-Werror=override-init]
>>   .gp_barrier = srcu_rcu_barrier,
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:283:16: note: (near initialization for 'sched_ops.gp_barrier')
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:313:11: error: initialized field overwritten [-Werror=override-init]
>>   .async  = call_rcu_tasks,
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:313:11: note: (near initialization for 'tasks_ops.async')
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:314:16: error: initialized field overwritten [-Werror=override-init]
>>   .gp_barrier = rcu_barrier_tasks,
>> kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c:314:16: note: (near initialization for 'tasks_ops.gp_barrier')
>>
>> This appears to be a copy-paste bug, so we can remove the extranous copy.
>>
>> Fixes: f743d20f2cc6 ("rcuperf: Add ability to performance-test call_rcu() and friends")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> For those times when you want to be -really- sure that the field is in
> fact initialized!  ;-)
>
> Good catch!!!  I merged this into the original commit with attribution:
>
> [ paulmck: Removed the redundant initialization noted by Arnd Bergmann. ]

Thanks!

Note that one of them was not redundant but actually incorrect, as it
replaced the _rcu_sched variant with the srcu_ variant.

       Arnd