From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: replace dma_alloc_coherent + memset with dma_zalloc_coherent Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:35:12 +0300 Message-ID: <87bm9rhdm7.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> References: <20180824171410.22539-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "David S . Miller" , wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Colin King Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180824171410.22539-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (Colin King's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:14:10 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Colin King writes: > From: Colin Ian King > > It is preferable to use dma_zalloc_coherent rather than dam_alloc_coherent > and memset, so use it. > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- > drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c | 6 ++---- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c > index 06cfe8d311f3..e66ddaa39523 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c > @@ -174,13 +174,11 @@ static int wcn36xx_dxe_init_descs(struct device *dev, struct wcn36xx_dxe_ch *wcn > int i; > > size = wcn_ch->desc_num * sizeof(struct wcn36xx_dxe_desc); > - wcn_ch->cpu_addr = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, &wcn_ch->dma_addr, > - GFP_KERNEL); > + wcn_ch->cpu_addr = dma_zalloc_coherent(dev, size, &wcn_ch->dma_addr, > + GFP_KERNEL); > if (!wcn_ch->cpu_addr) > return -ENOMEM; > > - memset(wcn_ch->cpu_addr, 0, size); > - > cur_dxe = (struct wcn36xx_dxe_desc *)wcn_ch->cpu_addr; > cur_ctl = wcn_ch->head_blk_ctl; Hehe, I think you are the third person submitting a similar patch :) Anyway, I just applied this few hours ago: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=ath-next&id=d410e28f3ae476e1572b8893c646ef44fae7bbbd -- Kalle Valo