linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] habanalabs: remove redundant memory clear

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Message-Id: <20190509190135.5634-2-oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu,  9 May 2019 22:01:34 +0300
From:   Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] habanalabs: remove redundant memory clear

The driver allocates memory for fence object with GFP_ZERO flag, so there
is no need to explicitly write 0 to the allocated object after the
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>
---
 drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c
index 756921c52cf7..a2459cb106dd 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c
@@ -2823,8 +2823,6 @@ static int goya_send_job_on_qman0(struct hl_device *hdev, struct hl_cs_job *job)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	*fence_ptr = 0;
-
 	goya_qman0_set_security(hdev, true);
 
 	cb = job->patched_cb;
-- 
2.17.1