On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Himangi Saraogi <[email protected]> wrote:
> alloc_bootmem and related functions always return a zeroed region of memory.
> Thus a memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary.
>
> The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:
>
> @@
> expression E,E1;
> @@
>
> E =
> \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
> ... when != E
> - memset(E,0,E1);
>
> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Thanks, applied and queued for v3.19.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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