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Subject[PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem
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/ia64/kernel/iosapic.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>
---

diff -u -p a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
@@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ static struct iosapic_rte_info * __init_
if (!iosapic_kmalloc_ok && list_empty(&free_rte_list)) {
rte = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct iosapic_rte_info) *
NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES);
- if (!rte)
- return NULL;
for (i = 0; i < NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES; i++, rte++)
list_add(&rte->rte_list, &free_rte_list);
}

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