linux-kernel - [PATCH] vmwgfx: remove useless set memory to zero use memset()

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:07:43 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	airlied@...ux.ie
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vmwgfx: remove useless set memory to zero use memset()

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

The memory return by kzalloc() or kmem_cache_zalloc() has already
be set to zero, so remove useless memset(0).

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
index 4d9edea..3e47f75 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
@@ -437,7 +437,6 @@ static int vmw_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long chipset)
 		DRM_ERROR("Failed allocating a device private struct.\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	memset(dev_priv, 0, sizeof(*dev_priv));
 
 	pci_set_master(dev->pdev);
 

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
index c50724b..5474394 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
@@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ static int do_surface_dirty_sou(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
 	}
 
 	/* only need to do this once */
-	memset(cmd, 0, fifo_size);
 	cmd->header.id = cpu_to_le32(SVGA_3D_CMD_BLIT_SURFACE_TO_SCREEN);
 	cmd->header.size = cpu_to_le32(fifo_size - sizeof(cmd->header));
 


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