[PATCH 13/14] lib: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Jun 24 2008 - 04:27:12 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.

lib/swiotlb.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 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@xxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/lib/swiotlb.c b/lib/swiotlb.c
--- a/lib/swiotlb.c
+++ b/lib/swiotlb.c
@@ -146,8 +146,6 @@ swiotlb_init_with_default_size(size_t de
* Get IO TLB memory from the low pages
*/
io_tlb_start = alloc_bootmem_low_pages(bytes);
- if (!io_tlb_start)
- panic("Cannot allocate SWIOTLB buffer");
io_tlb_end = io_tlb_start + bytes;

/*
@@ -165,8 +163,6 @@ swiotlb_init_with_default_size(size_t de
* Get the overflow emergency buffer
*/
io_tlb_overflow_buffer = alloc_bootmem_low(io_tlb_overflow);
- if (!io_tlb_overflow_buffer)
- panic("Cannot allocate SWIOTLB overflow buffer!\n");

printk(KERN_INFO "Placing software IO TLB between 0x%lx - 0x%lx\n",
virt_to_bus(io_tlb_start), virt_to_bus(io_tlb_end));
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