From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 23:02:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from [127.0.0.1] (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717E81065673; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) From: Jung-uk Kim To: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:02:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <201012032154.oB3LsADC035461@svn.freebsd.org> <201012031708.30232.jhb@freebsd.org> <201012031744.01956.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201012031744.01956.jkim@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012031802.40083.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r216161 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 i386/i386 X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:02:48 -0000 On Friday 03 December 2010 05:43 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2010 05:08 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, December 03, 2010 4:54:10 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > > Author: jkim > > > Date: Fri Dec 3 21:54:10 2010 > > > New Revision: 216161 > > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216161 > > > > > > Log: > > > Explicitly initialize TSC frequency. To calibrate TSC > > > frequency, we use DELAY(9) and it may use TSC in turn if TSC > > > frequency is non-zero. > > > > We zero the BSS, so these were already zero. This just makes the > > actual kernel file on disk larger by wasting space in .data > > instead of .bss. > > Please note that I didn't touch other variables, e.g., > tsc_is_broken, because I knew that. However, I just wanted to do > that *explicitly*. Anyway, it is reverted now and SVN will remember > what I wanted to do. ;-) > > BTW, if my memory serves, GCC (and all modern C compilers) put(s) > zero-initialized variables back in .bss. I just tried it. GCC generates identical binaries as I thought. However, Clang doesn't do the optimization. :-/ Jung-uk Kim