From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> 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. arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ 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); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- Diff -u -p a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c @@ -676,7 +676,6 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(struc * Allocate the vector page early. */ vectors = alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE); - BUG_ON(!vectors); for (addr = VMALLOC_END; addr; addr += PGDIR_SIZE) pmd_clear(pmd_off_k(addr)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
