Re: [PATCH 6/8] clk: ppc-corenet: Replace kzalloc() with kmalloc()

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 04:09 -0600, Emil Medve wrote:
> Where the memset() is not necessary
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c b/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> index d84a7f0..91816b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static void __init core_pll_init(struct device_node *np)
>  	if (!subclks)
>  		goto err_map;
>  
> -	onecell_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*onecell_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	onecell_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*onecell_data), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!onecell_data)
>  		goto err_clks;
>  

I think it's better to use kzalloc always, outside of
performance-sensitive allocations.  E.g. what if a new field is added to
the struct later?

-Scott