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FRV: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem

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As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9,
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/frv/mm/init.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

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@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Julia Lawall 2008-10-15 16:51:04 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cb76d5a4c4
commit 70a3075d40
1 changed files with 0 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/frv/mm/init.c
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@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
pkmap_page_table = alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
memset(pkmap_page_table, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
pge = swapper_pg_dir + pgd_index_k(PKMAP_BASE);
pue = pud_offset(pge, PKMAP_BASE);
pme = pmd_offset(pue, PKMAP_BASE);