On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:06 +0100, Christophe Jaillet wrote: > From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, here is a patch against arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c. > > No need to memset (.., 0, ...) a buffer that is complety filled by a memcpy > the line after. > > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c > index 2b548af..7a401ed 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c > @@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ static struct rtas_error_log *fwnmi_get_errinfo(struct > pt_regs *regs) > (errdata >= rtas.base && errdata < rtas.base + rtas.size - 16)) { > savep = __va(errdata); > regs->gpr[3] = savep[0]; /* restore original r3 */ > - memset(mce_data_buf, 0, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX); > memcpy(mce_data_buf, (char *)(savep + 1), RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX); While you are at it, this ^^^^^^^^ type cast is superfluous too. > errhdr = (struct rtas_error_log *)mce_data_buf; > } else { Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LUGA : http://www.luga.at -- 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