Re: [EDAC ABI v13 24/25] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

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.