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The QEMU_UNINITIALIZED macro is to be used to skip the default compiler variable initialization done by -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero. Use this in cases where there a method in the device I/O path (or other important hot paths), that has large variables on the stack. A rule of thumb is that "large" means a method with 4kb data in the local stack frame. Any variables which are KB in size, should be annotated with this attribute, to pre-emptively eliminate any potential overhead from the compiler zero'ing memory. Given that this turns off a security hardening feature, when using this to flag variables, it is important that the code is double-checked to ensure there is no possible use of uninitialized data in the method. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20250610123709.835102-2-berrange@redhat.com [DB: split off patch & rewrite guidance on when to use the annotation] Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>