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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: selfballoon: remove unnecessary static in frontswap_selfshrink()



On 04/07/17 20:34, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Remove unnecessary static on local variables last_frontswap_pages and
> tgt_frontswap_pages. Such variables are initialized before being used,
> on every execution path throughout the function. The statics have no
> benefit and, removing them reduce the code size.
> 
> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
> 
> @bad exists@
> position p;
> identifier x;
> type T;
> @@
> 
> static T x@p;
> ...
> x = <+...x...+>
> 
> @@
> identifier x;
> expression e;
> type T;
> position p != bad.p;
> @@
> 
> -static
>  T x@p;
>  ... when != x
>      when strict
> ?x = e;
> 
> You can see a significant difference in the code size after executing
> the size command, before and after the code change:
> 
> before:
>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    5633          3452     384    9469    24fd drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.o
> 
> after:
>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    5576          3308     256    9140    23b4 drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Sorry for late answer,

Juergen

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