From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>,
mchehab@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: media: atomisp2: css2400: Replace kfree()/vfree() with kvfree()
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:58:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499475510.20988.12.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170708004054.GA27142@amitoj-Inspiron-3542>
On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 20:40 -0400, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Conditionally calling kfree()/vfree() can be replaced by a call to
> kvfree() which handles both kmalloced memory and vmalloced memory.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css.c
[]
> @@ -2029,10 +2029,7 @@ void *sh_css_calloc(size_t N, size_t size)
>
> void sh_css_free(void *ptr)
> {
> - if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
> - vfree(ptr);
> - else
> - kfree(ptr);
> + kvfree(ptr);
> }
Why not just get rid of sh_css_free and use kvfree directly?
Why not get rid of all the sh_css_<alloc/free> functions?
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2017-07-08 0:40 Amitoj Kaur Chawla
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