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powerpc: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> As noted by Akinobu Mita in commit b1fceac2 (“x86: remove unnecessary memset and NULL check after alloc_bootmem()”), alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. This was fixed using the following …

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