From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: akinobu.mita@gmail.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/14] arch/arm: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:21:07 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806241020190.26777@ask.diku.dk> (raw)
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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.
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
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>
---
Diff -u -p a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -676,7 +676,6 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(struc
* Allocate the vector page early.
*/
vectors = alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
- BUG_ON(!vectors);
for (addr = VMALLOC_END; addr; addr += PGDIR_SIZE)
pmd_clear(pmd_off_k(addr));
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