Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] pid: perform free_pid() calls outside of tasklist_lock

From: Mateusz Guzik
Date: Mon Feb 03 2025 - 14:31:44 EST


On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> To avoid the confusion, my question and a note are absolutely offtopic.
>
> On 02/01, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> >
> > @@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setpgid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, pgid)
> > {
> > struct task_struct *p;
> > struct task_struct *group_leader = current->group_leader;
> > + struct pid *pids[PIDTYPE_MAX] = { 0 };
>
> Could you remind me why
>
> struct pid *pids[PIDTYPE_MAX] = {};
>
> is not right? I seem to knew it some time before, but can't recall...
>

as far as I know this is merely a matter of convention, fwiw a naive grep:
$ git grep '= { }' | wc -l
1273
$ git grep '= { 0 }' | wc -l
2031
$ git grep '= {}' | wc -l
5626

that said i can change it to whatever you see fit

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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>