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powercap: idle_inject: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] Lastly, fix the following checkpatch warning: WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned long' over 'unsigned long int' as the int is unnecessary + unsigned long int cpumask[]; This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] KSPP#21 [3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c

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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct idle_inject_device {
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struct hrtimer timer;
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unsigned int idle_duration_us;
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unsigned int run_duration_us;
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unsigned long int cpumask[0];
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unsigned long cpumask[];
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};
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static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct idle_inject_thread, idle_inject_thread);

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