Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:42:22 -0700 | Subject | RE: [PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem |
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> 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.
There is no commit b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b in Linus' tree.
In addition the current alloc_bootmem() is a macro that uses __alloc_bootmem which most defintely can return NULL.
Is this against -mm or linux-next?
-Tony
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