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From: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>
To: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel: make sure VG_CLEAR() will always do memory clear
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:36:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131120113620.GA32765@strange.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384939368-17291-1-git-send-email-zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:22:48PM +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> If valgrind is not available, current VG_CLEAR() would just ignore
> memory clear operation which might make invalid ioctl argument. So
> make sure VG_CLEAR() will always clear memory.
> ---
>  intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> index df6fcec..389f73a 100644
> --- a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> +++ b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
>  #define VG(x)
>  #endif
>  
> -#define VG_CLEAR(s) VG(memset(&s, 0, sizeof(s)))
> +#define VG_CLEAR(s) (memset(&s, 0, sizeof(s)))

VG_CLEAR() is really just for valgrind. If you need to set some specific
variable/field to 0 then you need to set it to 0 and not rely on
VG_CLEAR() to do it for you.

What's the actual issue you have?

-- 
Damien

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20  9:22 [PATCH] intel: make sure VG_CLEAR() will always do memory clear Zhenyu Wang
2013-11-20 11:36 ` Damien Lespiau [this message]
2013-11-20 15:53   ` Zhenyu Wang
2013-11-20 16:59     ` Damien Lespiau
2013-11-21  2:16       ` Zhenyu Wang

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