From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"sangjung.woo" <sangjung.woo@samsung.com>,
Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>,
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: pl030: Use devm_kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:25:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381447511.14017.24.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131010231851.GB14030@mtj.dyndns.org>
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 19:18 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Do we have an
> actual cases where this makes meaningful differences?
There are already a few array allocations
where the array is completely reinitialized.
Does it matter? Shrug.
It's more API compatible and more symmetric.
Direct conversions of kmalloc blocks don't
involve kmalloc->kzalloc translations, so
it'll be bug-for-bug compatible.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-10 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 4:00 Sangjung Woo
2013-10-09 4:07 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-09 4:36 ` sangjung.woo
2013-10-09 4:59 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-09 5:32 ` sangjung.woo
2013-10-10 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 23:14 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-10 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 23:18 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-10 23:25 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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