The patch titled Remove unecessary NULL check in kernel/acct.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is remove-unecessary-null-check-in-kernel-acctc.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Remove unecessary NULL check in kernel/acct.c From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx> copy_process() appears to be the only caller of acct_clear_integrals() and does not pass in NULL task pointers. Remove the unecessary check. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/acct.c | 8 +++----- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/acct.c~remove-unecessary-null-check-in-kernel-acctc kernel/acct.c --- devel/kernel/acct.c~remove-unecessary-null-check-in-kernel-acctc 2006-05-24 18:03:10.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/kernel/acct.c 2006-05-24 18:03:10.000000000 -0700 @@ -599,9 +599,7 @@ void acct_update_integrals(struct task_s */ void acct_clear_integrals(struct task_struct *tsk) { - if (tsk) { - tsk->acct_stimexpd = 0; - tsk->acct_rss_mem1 = 0; - tsk->acct_vm_mem1 = 0; - } + tsk->acct_stimexpd = 0; + tsk->acct_rss_mem1 = 0; + tsk->acct_vm_mem1 = 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx are process-events-header-cleanup.patch process-events-license-change.patch remove-unecessary-null-check-in-kernel-acctc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html