Hi,
The following patch removes a couple of null-ilizers of global
variables. Not a big deal, but every byte helps in the .data segment ;-)
Cheers,
Jes
diff -urN -X /usr/people/jes/exclude-linux orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/fs/bio.c linux-2.6.1-mm3/fs/bio.c
--- orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/fs/bio.c Wed Jan 14 02:59:50 2004
+++ linux-2.6.1-mm3/fs/bio.c Wed Jan 14 04:46:23 2004
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@
static DECLARE_WORK(bio_dirty_work, bio_dirty_fn, NULL);
static spinlock_t bio_dirty_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
-static struct bio *bio_dirty_list = NULL;
+static struct bio *bio_dirty_list;
/*
* This runs in process context
diff -urN -X /usr/people/jes/exclude-linux orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/init/main.c linux-2.6.1-mm3/init/main.c
--- orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/init/main.c Wed Jan 14 02:59:53 2004
+++ linux-2.6.1-mm3/init/main.c Wed Jan 14 04:43:10 2004
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
extern void time_init(void);
/* Default late time init is NULL. archs can override this later. */
-void (*late_time_init)(void) = NULL;
+void (*late_time_init)(void);
extern void softirq_init(void);
static char *execute_command;
diff -urN -X /usr/people/jes/exclude-linux orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/kernel/cpu.c linux-2.6.1-mm3/kernel/cpu.c
--- orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/kernel/cpu.c Wed Dec 17 18:59:35 2003
+++ linux-2.6.1-mm3/kernel/cpu.c Wed Jan 14 04:43:29 2004
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
/* This protects CPUs going up and down... */
DECLARE_MUTEX(cpucontrol);
-static struct notifier_block *cpu_chain = NULL;
+static struct notifier_block *cpu_chain;
/* Need to know about CPUs going up/down? */
int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
diff -urN -X /usr/people/jes/exclude-linux orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/mm/nommu.c linux-2.6.1-mm3/mm/nommu.c
--- orig/linux-2.6.1-mm3-boot/mm/nommu.c Wed Jan 14 02:59:53 2004
+++ linux-2.6.1-mm3/mm/nommu.c Wed Jan 14 04:47:22 2004
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
void *high_memory;
-struct page *mem_map = NULL;
+struct page *mem_map;
unsigned long max_mapnr;
unsigned long num_physpages;
unsigned long askedalloc, realalloc;
atomic_t vm_committed_space = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-int sysctl_overcommit_memory = 0; /* default is heuristic overcommit */
+int sysctl_overcommit_memory; /* default is heuristic overcommit */
int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50; /* default is 50% */
/*