Re: [KJ] kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/block [sane version]

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Om Narasimhan wrote:
> Thanks for the comments.
>> >
>> > Signed off by Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@gmail.com>
>>
>> This is not the canonical format, per SubmittingPatches. It should be:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
> OK. I would take care of it.
>>
>> >  drivers/block/cciss.c    |    4 +--
>> >  drivers/block/cpqarray.c |   72 
>> +++++++++++++++-------------------------------
>> >  drivers/block/loop.c     |    4 +--
>> >  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>>
>> Your diffstat should have indicated to you that this should be split up
>> better. Please (re-)read SubmittingPatches. *One* logical change per
>> patch, most importantly.
> OK. I would resubmit.
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
>> > index 2cd3391..a800a69 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
>> > @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ #if 0                             /* 'buf_size' 
>> member is 16-bits
>> >                               return -EINVAL;
>> >  #endif
>> >                       if (iocommand.buf_size > 0) {
>> > -                             buff = kmalloc(iocommand.buf_size, 
>> GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +                             buff = kzalloc(iocommand.buf_size, 
>> GFP_KERNEL);
>> >                               if (buff == NULL)
>> >                                       return -EFAULT;
>> >                       }
>> > @@ -911,8 +911,6 @@ #endif
>> >                                       kfree(buff);
>> >                                       return -EFAULT;
>> >                               }
>> > -                     } else {
>> > -                             memset(buff, 0, iocommand.buf_size);
>> >                       }
>> >                       if ((c = cmd_alloc(host, 0)) == NULL) {
>> >                               kfree(buff);
>>
>> This changes performance potentially, no? The memset before was
>> conditional upon (iocommand.Request.Type.Direction == XFER_WRITE) and
>> now the memory will always be zero'd.
> Yes, but not the functionality.
> if (iocommand.buf_size > 0), code allocates using kmalloc. if
> direction is XFER_WRITE, it does a copy_from_user(), and free()s the
> allocated buffer, not really caring what data came in from userspace.
> Else, it does memset(). So I could safely replace the kmalloc() with
> kzalloc() without compromising functionality.

Ok, this is something like I need 10 bytes of memory, so I request two memory 
pages for reserved use. It works, but it kills performance.

Why you zero memory that is not needed to be zeroed?

regards,
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