The following commit has been merged into the perf/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 4bd30106ddb26d2304adc5bb7bd269825300440d Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4bd30106ddb26d2304adc5bb7bd269825300440d Author: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:52:16 -04:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> CommitterDate: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:14:36 +02:00
perf/x86/intel/pt: Drop pointless NULL assignment. Only a few lines below this removed line is this: attrs = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); and since there is no code path where this could be avoided, the NULL assignment is a pointless relic of history and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] --- arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c index 1db7a51..e94af4a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c @@ -226,8 +226,6 @@ static int __init pt_pmu_hw_init(void) pt_pmu.vmx = true; } - attrs = NULL; - for (i = 0; i < PT_CPUID_LEAVES; i++) { cpuid_count(20, i, &pt_pmu.caps[CPUID_EAX + i*PT_CPUID_REGS_NUM],
