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. This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...) ... when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...) ... when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c index bb1d249..b683eb3 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c @@ -512,7 +512,6 @@ static void __init sn_init_pdas(char **cmdline_p) for_each_online_node(cnode) { nodepdaindr[cnode] = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(cnode), sizeof(nodepda_t)); - memset(nodepdaindr[cnode], 0, sizeof(nodepda_t)); memset(nodepdaindr[cnode]->phys_cpuid, -1, sizeof(nodepdaindr[cnode]->phys_cpuid)); spin_lock_init(&nodepdaindr[cnode]->ptc_lock); @@ -521,11 +520,9 @@ static void __init sn_init_pdas(char **cmdline_p) /* * Allocate & initialize nodepda for TIOs. For now, put them on node 0. */ - for (cnode = num_online_nodes(); cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++) { + for (cnode = num_online_nodes(); cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++) nodepdaindr[cnode] = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0), sizeof(nodepda_t)); - memset(nodepdaindr[cnode], 0, sizeof(nodepda_t)); - } /* * Now copy the array of nodepda pointers to each nodepda. -- 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