linux-kernel - [rtla 10/13] rtla: Remove redundant memset after calloc

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Message-ID: <20251117184409.42831-11-wander@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:41:17 -0300
From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>,
	Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>,
	Crystal Wood <crwood@...hat.com>,
	Ivan Pravdin <ipravdin.official@...il.com>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list:Real-time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tools),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list),
	bpf@...r.kernel.org (open list:BPF [MISC]:Keyword:(?:\b|_)bpf(?:\b|_))
Subject: [rtla 10/13] rtla: Remove redundant memset after calloc

The actions struct is allocated using calloc, which already returns
zeroed memory. The subsequent memset call to zero the 'present' member
is therefore redundant.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>
---
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
index 2a01ece78454c..2d153d5efdea2 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ actions_init(struct actions *self)
 	self->len = 0;
 	self->continue_flag = false;
 
-	memset(&self->present, 0, sizeof(self->present));
-
 	/* This has to be set by the user */
 	self->trace_output_inst = NULL;
 	return 0;
-- 
2.51.1