linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/16] AMD IOMMU: remove unneeded initializations from command buffer allocation

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Message-ID: <1215789275-20975-11-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:14:29 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	bhavna.sarathy@....com, robert.richter@....com,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/16] AMD IOMMU: remove unneeded initializations from command buffer allocation

This patch removes an unneeded initialization from the alloc_command_buffer
function and replaces a memset with __GFP_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
index 0f5a911..0124995 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
@@ -394,17 +394,15 @@ static int __init find_last_devid_acpi(struct acpi_table_header *table)
  */
 static u8 * __init alloc_command_buffer(struct amd_iommu *iommu)
 {
-	u8 *cmd_buf = (u8 *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,
+	u8 *cmd_buf = (u8 *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
 			get_order(CMD_BUFFER_SIZE));
-	u64 entry = 0;
+	u64 entry;
 
 	if (cmd_buf == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
 	iommu->cmd_buf_size = CMD_BUFFER_SIZE;
 
-	memset(cmd_buf, 0, CMD_BUFFER_SIZE);
-
 	entry = (u64)virt_to_phys(cmd_buf);
 	entry |= MMIO_CMD_SIZE_512;
 	memcpy_toio(iommu->mmio_base + MMIO_CMD_BUF_OFFSET,
-- 
1.5.3.7


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