From: Julia Lawall Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:33 +0000 (+0200) Subject: arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~974 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b6b948fc0d60a704c15b1cd72345a98e759dd62;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b, alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) .. when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) .. when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c b/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c index 30d34f28502..226795bdf35 100644 --- a/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c +++ b/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c @@ -285,7 +285,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void) * to a couple of allocated pages */ empty_zero_page = alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE); - memset(empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE); /* * Set up SFC/DFC registers