svn commit: r216161 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 i386/i386

[Jung-uk Kim]

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.

Jung-uk Kim