From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from labridge.com (perches-mx.perches.com [206.117.179.246]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE9B4B6FA3 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:10:31 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <1335076630.13194.6.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: [EDAC ABI v13 24/25] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy From: Joe Perches To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab In-Reply-To: <4F900FB3.6000607@redhat.com> References: <1334608729-30803-1-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com> <1334608729-30803-25-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com> <1334697467.3920.5.camel@joe2Laptop> <4F900FB3.6000607@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:37:10 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "Arvind R." , Michal Marek , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Mark Gross , Shaohui Xie , Jason Uhlenkott , Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , Jiri Kosina , Ranganathan Desikan , Borislav Petkov , Chris Metcalf , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Egor Martovetsky , Aristeu Rozanski , Olof Johansson , Doug Thompson , Andrew Morton , Tim Small , Hitoshi Mitake , Linux Edac Mailing List List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 10:14 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c [] > @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ struct mem_ctl_info *edac_mc_alloc(unsigned edac_index, > /* > * Alocate and fill the csrow/channels structs > */ > - mci->csrows = kzalloc(sizeof(*mci->csrows) * tot_csrows, GFP_KERNEL); > + mci->csrows = kcalloc(sizeof(*mci->csrows), tot_csrows, GFP_KERNEL); trivia: the first 2 args to kcalloc should be swapped. static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) kcalloc(tot_csrows, sizeof(*mci->csrows), GFP_KERNEL); [] > @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ struct mem_ctl_info *edac_mc_alloc(unsigned edac_index, > csr->csrow_idx = row; > csr->mci = mci; > csr->nr_channels = tot_cschannels; > - csr->channels = kzalloc(sizeof(*csr->channels) * tot_cschannels, > + csr->channels = kcalloc(sizeof(*csr->channels), tot_cschannels, and here. [] > @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ struct mem_ctl_info *edac_mc_alloc(unsigned edac_index, > /* > * Allocate and fill the dimm structs > */ > - mci->dimms = kzalloc(sizeof(*mci->dimms) * tot_dimms, GFP_KERNEL); > + mci->dimms = kcalloc(sizeof(*mci->dimms), tot_dimms, GFP_KERNEL); and here too.