Re: [patch] btrfs: remove dead code #3

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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:39 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26 2009, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > kzalloc() already initialized ->error to zero.
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > --- orig/fs/btrfs/volumes.c	2009-03-26 17:14:13.000000000 +0300
> > +++ devel/fs/btrfs/volumes.c	2009-03-26 17:14:55.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -2422,10 +2422,8 @@
> >  		multi = kzalloc(btrfs_multi_bio_size(stripes_allocated),
> >  				GFP_NOFS);
> >  		if (!multi)
> >  			return -ENOMEM;
> > -
> > -		atomic_set(&multi->error, 0);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	spin_lock(&em_tree->lock);
> >  	em = lookup_extent_mapping(em_tree, logical, *length);
> 
> Careful, some archs require a barrier there. It's dangerous to makes
> assumptions about the underlying implementation of such things, I'd
> leave that one alone.
> 
Yeah, I'm not so much worried about the barrier as I am that assuming a
memset can init an atomic in general.

-chris


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