On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
alloc_bootmem and related functions always return a zeroed region of memory.
Thus a memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary.
The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:
@@
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: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied and queued for v3.19.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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