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[IA64] Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem in iosapic_alloc_rte()
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:22:05 +0000 (10:22 +0200)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:28:55 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
As noted by Akinobu Mita 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.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c

index 082c31dcfd998d83448d52559161805ca240be49..39752cdef6ffd342210c237f60aa7c32782cbd87 100644 (file)
@@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ static struct iosapic_rte_info * __init_refok iosapic_alloc_rte (void)
        if (!iosapic_kmalloc_ok && list_empty(&free_rte_list)) {
                rte = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct iosapic_rte_info) *
                                    NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES);
-               if (!rte)
-                       return NULL;
                for (i = 0; i < NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES; i++, rte++)
                        list_add(&rte->rte_list, &free_rte_list);
        }