vfs: don't force a big memset of stat data just to clear padding fields
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2012 01:02:40 +0000 (18:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2012 01:02:40 +0000 (18:02 -0700)
Admittedly this is something that the compiler should be able to just do
for us, but gcc just isn't that smart.  And trying to use a structure
initializer (which would get us the right semantics) ends up resulting
in gcc allocating stack space for _two_ 'struct stat', and then copying
one into the other.

So do it by hand - just have a per-architecture macro that initializes
the padding fields.  And if the architecture doesn't provide one, fall
back to the old behavior of just doing the whole memset() first.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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