From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:22:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [IA64] Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem in iosapic_alloc_rte()
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[IA64] Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem in iosapic_alloc_rte()

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>
---

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
index 082c31dcfd..39752cdef6 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c
@@ -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);
 	}