[patch 04/10] x86: remove unnecessary memset and NULL check after alloc_bootmem()

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Sat Apr 19 2008 - 11:07:49 EST


memset and NULL check after alloc_bootmem() are unnecessary.
Because it returns zeroed memory and it never return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6-git/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ 2.6-git/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -697,10 +697,6 @@ static int __init acpi_parse_hpet(struct
#define HPET_RESOURCE_NAME_SIZE 9
hpet_res = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(*hpet_res) + HPET_RESOURCE_NAME_SIZE);

- if (!hpet_res)
- return 0;
-
- memset(hpet_res, 0, sizeof(*hpet_res));
hpet_res->name = (void *)&hpet_res[1];
hpet_res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
snprintf((char *)hpet_res->name, HPET_RESOURCE_NAME_SIZE, "HPET %u",

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