[PATCH 3/5] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset afteralloc_bootmem

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 05:48:31 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

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.

This was fixed using the following semantic patch.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression E;
statement S;
@@

E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...)
... when != E
(
- BUG_ON (E == NULL);
|
- if (E == NULL) S
)

@@
expression E,E1;
@@

E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...)
... when != E
- memset(E,0,E1);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
---

arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c | 5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
index bb1d249..b683eb3 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
@@ -512,7 +512,6 @@ static void __init sn_init_pdas(char **cmdline_p)
for_each_online_node(cnode) {
nodepdaindr[cnode] =
alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(cnode), sizeof(nodepda_t));
- memset(nodepdaindr[cnode], 0, sizeof(nodepda_t));
memset(nodepdaindr[cnode]->phys_cpuid, -1,
sizeof(nodepdaindr[cnode]->phys_cpuid));
spin_lock_init(&nodepdaindr[cnode]->ptc_lock);
@@ -521,11 +520,9 @@ static void __init sn_init_pdas(char **cmdline_p)
/*
* Allocate & initialize nodepda for TIOs. For now, put them on node 0.
*/
- for (cnode = num_online_nodes(); cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++) {
+ for (cnode = num_online_nodes(); cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++)
nodepdaindr[cnode] =
alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0), sizeof(nodepda_t));
- memset(nodepdaindr[cnode], 0, sizeof(nodepda_t));
- }

/*
* Now copy the array of nodepda pointers to each nodepda.
--
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