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[v3,13/19] selftests/resctrl: Remove unnecessary startptr global from fill_buf

Message ID 20230605180145.112924-14-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 5e3e4f1a03f075bd49104ea4c998c20649a49491
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Series selftests/resctrl: Fixes and cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Ilpo Järvinen June 5, 2023, 6:01 p.m. UTC 
fill_buf stores buffer pointer into global variable startptr that is
only used in fill_cache().

Remove startptr as global variable, the local variable in fill_cache()
is enough to keep the pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
index d8f5505eb9e6..a5ec9c82a960 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ 
 #define PAGE_SIZE		(4 * 1024)
 #define MB			(1024 * 1024)
 
-static unsigned char *startptr;
-
 static void sb(void)
 {
 #if defined(__i386) || defined(__x86_64)
@@ -147,7 +145,6 @@  static int fill_cache(size_t buf_size, int memflush, int op, char *resctrl_val)
 	if (!start_ptr)
 		return -1;
 
-	startptr = start_ptr;
 	end_ptr = start_ptr + buf_size;
 
 	/* Flush the memory before using to avoid "cache hot pages" effect */
@@ -159,7 +156,7 @@  static int fill_cache(size_t buf_size, int memflush, int op, char *resctrl_val)
 	else
 		ret = fill_cache_write(start_ptr, end_ptr, resctrl_val);
 
-	free(startptr);
+	free(start_ptr);
 
 	if (ret) {
 		printf("\n Error in fill cache read/write...\n");