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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Sahil Mehta <sahilmehta17@gmail.com>,
	Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc-pseries: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iommu_pseries_alloc_group()
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:49:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5905c07-6127-685d-98b0-5c2bbeabe5ea@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171019133718.5bdab33c@kitsune.suse.cz>

>>  static struct iommu_table_group *iommu_pseries_alloc_group(int node)
>>  {
>> -	struct iommu_table_group *table_group = NULL;
>> +	struct iommu_table_group *table_group;
>>  	struct iommu_table *tbl = NULL;
>>  	struct iommu_table_group_link *tgl = NULL;
>>  
> 
> I think initializing pointers to NULL is generally a good idea.

This one would also not be needed if the call of the function “kzalloc_node”
could be specified in the same statement.


> Removing these initializers adds no value, to the contrary.

This small update step is just a “preparation” for the subsequent two suggestions
in this patch series.

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-19 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-18 19:20 [PATCH 0/5] PowerPC-pSeries: Adjustments for seven function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-18 19:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] powerpc-pseries: Delete five error messages for a failed memory allocation SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-18 19:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] powerpc-pseries: Improve nine size determinations SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-18 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] powerpc-pseries: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iommu_pseries_alloc_group() SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 11:37   ` Michal Suchánek
2017-10-19 11:49     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-10-19 12:55     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-10-19 13:51       ` Michal Suchánek
2017-10-20  1:06       ` David Gibson
2017-10-18 19:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc-pseries: Return directly after a failed kzalloc_node() " SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 11:41   ` Michal Suchánek
2017-10-19 12:04     ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 12:39       ` Michal Suchánek
2017-10-24  8:09   ` [4/5] " Michael Ellerman
2017-10-18 19:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc-pseries: Less function calls in iommu_pseries_alloc_group() after error detection SF Markus Elfring

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