From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wan: Use dma_pool_zalloc Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:10:49 -0800 Message-ID: <1481868649.29291.85.camel@perches.com> References: <20161203091447.GA5231@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC> <1481820487.29291.66.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Krzysztof =?UTF-8?Q?Ha=C5=82asa?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rameshwar Sahu To: Souptick Joarder Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0001.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.1]:56864 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752410AbcLPGL4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:11:56 -0500 Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E38D17252E for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:11:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:33 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 10:41 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Krzysztof HaƂasa wrote: > > > > > Souptick Joarder writes: > > > > > > > > > > > We should use dma_pool_zalloc instead of dma_pool_alloc/memset > > > > [] > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/ixp4xx_hss.c b/drivers/net/wan/ixp4xx_hss.c > > > > [] > > > > > > @@ -976,10 +976,9 @@ static int init_hdlc_queues(struct port *port) > > > > > > return -ENOMEM; > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > - if (!(port->desc_tab = dma_pool_alloc(dma_pool, GFP_KERNEL, > > > > > > - &port->desc_tab_phys))) > > > > > > + if (!(port->desc_tab = dma_pool_zalloc(dma_pool, GFP_KERNEL, > > > > > > + &port->desc_tab_phys))) > > > > > > return -ENOMEM; > > > > > > - memset(port->desc_tab, 0, POOL_ALLOC_SIZE); > > > > > > memset(port->rx_buff_tab, 0, sizeof(port->rx_buff_tab)); /* tables */ > > > > > > memset(port->tx_buff_tab, 0, sizeof(port->tx_buff_tab)); > > > > > > > > > > This look fine, feel free to send it to the netdev mailing list for > > > > > inclusion. > > > > > > > > Including netdev mailing list based as requested. > > > > > Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa > > > > [] > > > Any comment on this patch ? > > > > Shouldn't the one in drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/ixp4xx_eth.c > > also be changed? > > Yes, you are right. Do you want me to include it in same patch? Your choice. I would use a single patch.