From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:10:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] x86: AMD-perf_event: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "free_percp Message-Id: <54708B5E.2080302@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:01:27 +0100 The free_percpu() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c index 30790d7..4856232 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c @@ -592,11 +592,9 @@ fail_online: fail_l2: if (cpu_has_perfctr_nb) perf_pmu_unregister(&amd_nb_pmu); - if (amd_uncore_l2) - free_percpu(amd_uncore_l2); + free_percpu(amd_uncore_l2); fail_nb: - if (amd_uncore_nb) - free_percpu(amd_uncore_nb); + free_percpu(amd_uncore_nb); fail_nodev: return ret; -- 2.1.3