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* [PATCH 5/5] mm/page_alloc.c: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem
@ 2008-11-23 10:49 Julia Lawall, Julia Lawall
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From: Julia Lawall, Julia Lawall @ 2008-11-23 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

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@diku.dk>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d8ac014..5040299 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3381,10 +3381,8 @@ static void __init setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 {
 	unsigned long usemapsize = usemap_size(zonesize);
 	zone->pageblock_flags = NULL;
-	if (usemapsize) {
+	if (usemapsize)
 		zone->pageblock_flags = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, usemapsize);
-		memset(zone->pageblock_flags, 0, usemapsize);
-	}
 }
 #else
 static void inline setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat,

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