Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 3/3] pm_qos: get rid of the allocation in pm_qos_add_request()

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-06-28T22:00:59Z

On Monday, June 28, 2010, James Bottomley wrote:
> Since every caller has to squirrel away the returned pointer anyway,
> they might as well supply the memory area. This fixes a bug in a few of
> the call sites where the returned pointer was dereferenced without
> checking it for NULL (which gets returned if the kzalloc failed).
>
> I'd like to hear how sound and netdev feels about this: it will add
> about two more pointers worth of data to struct netdev and struct
> snd_pcm_substream .. but I think it's worth it. If you're OK, I'll add
> your acks and send through the pm tree.
>
> This also looks to me like an android independent clean up (even though
> it renders the request_add atomically callable). I also added include
> guards to include/linux/pm_qos_params.h
>
> cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

I like all of the patches in this series, thanks a lot for doing this!

I guess it might be worth sending a CC to the LKML next round so that people
can see [1/3] (I don't expect any objections, but anyway it would be nice).

Thanks,
Rafael