[PATCH] drm/amdgpu/fence: Remove redundant 0 value initialization

[Alex Deucher]

Applied.  Thanks!

Alex

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM Christian König
<christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>
> On 19.08.25 10:25, Liao Yuanhong wrote:
> > The amdgpu_fence struct is already zeroed by kzalloc(). It's redundant to
> > initialize am_fence->context to 0.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liao Yuanhong <liaoyuanhong at vivo.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>
> If you want a challenge what we would really use is a scan of all the structures defined in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/*.[ch] for unused fields.
>
> The UAPI and BIOS/HW header files are full of padding fields, but there shouldn't be any in the driver core defines and we sometimes forget to remove fields from structures when they are not used any more.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > index bcb74286a78a..fd8cca241da6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > @@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ int amdgpu_fence_emit(struct amdgpu_ring *ring, struct dma_fence **f,
> >               am_fence = kzalloc(sizeof(*am_fence), GFP_KERNEL);
> >               if (!am_fence)
> >                       return -ENOMEM;
> > -             am_fence->context = 0;
> >       } else {
> >               am_fence = af;
> >       }
>