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* [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TIPC]: Enhancements to name table initialization
@ 2008-05-12 20:33 Allan Stephens
  2008-05-12 22:42 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Allan Stephens @ 2008-05-12 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, allan.stephens

This patch enhances the initialization of TIPC's name table
by removing a pointless spinlock operation, and by using
kcalloc() to detect requests for an oversized name table.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
---
 net/tipc/name_table.c |    7 ++-----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/name_table.c b/net/tipc/name_table.c
index ac7dfdd..892373e 100644
--- a/net/tipc/name_table.c
+++ b/net/tipc/name_table.c
@@ -1050,15 +1050,12 @@ void tipc_nametbl_dump(void)
 
 int tipc_nametbl_init(void)
 {
-	int array_size = sizeof(struct hlist_head) * tipc_nametbl_size;
-
-	table.types = kzalloc(array_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	table.types = kcalloc(tipc_nametbl_size, sizeof(struct hlist_head),
+			      GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!table.types)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	write_lock_bh(&tipc_nametbl_lock);
 	table.local_publ_count = 0;
-	write_unlock_bh(&tipc_nametbl_lock);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.2


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* Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TIPC]: Enhancements to name table initialization
  2008-05-12 20:33 [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TIPC]: Enhancements to name table initialization Allan Stephens
@ 2008-05-12 22:42 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2008-05-12 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: allan.stephens; +Cc: netdev

From: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:33:03 -0400

> This patch enhances the initialization of TIPC's name table
> by removing a pointless spinlock operation, and by using
> kcalloc() to detect requests for an oversized name table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>

Applied.

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