qemu/block/qcow2.c:1942: possible performance problem ? I just ran static analyser cppcheck over today (20140520) qemu source code. It said many things, including [qemu/block/qcow2.c:1942] -> [qemu/block/qcow2.c:1943]: (performance) Buffer 'pad_buf' is being writ ten before its old content has been used. Source code is memset(pad_buf, 0, s->cluster_size); memcpy(pad_buf, buf, nb_sectors * BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE); Worth tuning ? Similar problem here [qemu/block/qcow.c:815] -> [qemu/block/qcow.c:816]: (performance) Buffer 'pad_buf' is being written before its old content has been used. and [qemu/hw/i386/acpi-build.c:1265] -> [qemu/hw/i386/acpi-build.c:1267]: (performance) Buffer 'dsdt' is being written before its old content has been used.