Re: [PATCH] Fix initialization of runqueues

* Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There's an odd thing about the nr_active field in arrays of 
> runqueue_t: it is actually never initialized to 0!...  This doesn't 
> yet trigger a bug probably because the way runqueues are allocated 
> make it so that it is already initialized to 0, but that's not a safe 
> way.  Here is a patch:

we do rely on zero initialization of bss (and percpu) data in a number 
of places.

	Ingo
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