From: Greg K H <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@freescale.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:28:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120419152851.GD31543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334841690-305-1-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21:30AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Kernel kobjects have rigid rules: each container object should be
> dynamically allocated, and can't be allocated into a single kmalloc.
>
> EDAC never obeyed this rule: it has a single malloc function that
> allocates all needed data into a single kzalloc.
>
> As this is not accepted anymore, change the allocation schema of the
> EDAC *_info structs to enforce this Kernel standard.
Very nice work, thanks for doing this:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-16 20:38 [EDAC ABI v13 00/25] Fix EDAC userspace ABI Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 01/25] edac: Initialize the dimm label with the known information Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-07 15:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-14 12:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-14 13:47 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 02/25] edac: Cleanup the logs for i7core and sb edac drivers Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 03/25] i5400_edac: improve debug messages to better represent the filled memory Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM) Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 12:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 12:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 13:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 13:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 14:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 14:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 14:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 13:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-10 13:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 14:53 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-10 15:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 15:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-10 15:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 15:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-10 19:57 ` [PATCH] edac: Increase version to 3.0.0 (aka: "HERM" version) Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-11 10:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 15:20 ` [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM) Steven Rostedt
2012-05-10 15:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 15:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 14:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-10 13:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 05/25] i5000_edac: Fix the logic that retrieves memory information Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 06/25] e752x_edac: provide more info about how DIMMS/ranks are mapped Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 07/25] edac: Rename the parent dev to pdev Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 08/25] edac: use Documentation-nano format for some data structs Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 12:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 12:55 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 09/25] edac: rewrite the sysfs code to use struct device Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 12:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 13:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 13:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-09 14:09 ` [PATCH v21] edac: rewrite the sysfs code to use struct device - Was: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-05-09 13:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 10/25] mpc85xx_edac: convert sysfs logic " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 11/25] amd64_edac: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 12/25] i7core_edac: convert it " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 13/25] edac: Get rid of the old kobj's from the edac mc code Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 14/25] edac: add a new per-dimm API and make the old per-virtual-rank API obsolete Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 15/25] edac: add a sysfs node to report the maximum location for the system Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 16/25] edac: Add debufs nodes to allow doing fake error inject Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 17/25] edac: Create a per-Memory Controller bus Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 23:25 ` Greg K H
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 18/25] edac: Move grain/dtype/edac_type calculus to be out of channel loop Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 19/25] i82975x_edac: Test nr_pages earlier to save a few CPU cycles Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 20/25] i5100_edac: Fix a warning when compiled with 32 bits Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 21/25] i7300_edac: Get rid of some wrongly-solved rebase conflict Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 22/25] edac: Only expose csrows/channels on legacy API if they're populated Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 23/25] edac: Fix a typo at edac_mc_sysfs Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 24/25] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-19 13:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-22 6:37 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-19 13:21 ` [PATCH] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-19 15:28 ` Greg K H [this message]
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 25/25] i7core_edac: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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