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From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/block [sane version]
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:32:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4513C9BF.7040706@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4513A21C.40704@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Om Narasimhan wrote:
>> [...]
>> --- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
>> @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ static int __init cpqarray_register_ctlr
>>     hba[i]->cmd_pool = (cmdlist_t *)pci_alloc_consistent(
>>         hba[i]->pci_dev, NR_CMDS * sizeof(cmdlist_t),
>>         &(hba[i]->cmd_pool_dhandle));
>> -    hba[i]->cmd_pool_bits = kmalloc(
>> +    hba[i]->cmd_pool_bits = kzalloc(
>>         ((NR_CMDS+BITS_PER_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)*sizeof(unsigned long),
>>         GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> kcalloc?

Agreed on every comment except this one. That complex expression is 
really just a constant in the end, so there is no point in using kcalloc.

-- 
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

"The face of a child can say it all, especially the
mouth part of the face."

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21  6:11 kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/block [sane version] Om Narasimhan
2006-09-21  7:20 ` [KJ] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2006-09-22  5:40   ` Om Narasimhan
2006-09-22  6:04     ` Om Narasimhan
2006-09-22  8:43       ` Jiri Slaby
2006-09-22 11:32         ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2006-09-22 12:03           ` Pekka Enberg
2006-09-22 13:03             ` Paulo Marques
2006-09-22 13:45               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-22 22:55                 ` Om Narasimhan
2006-09-22  8:36     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-09-22 11:28       ` Paulo Marques

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