From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org,
wli@holomorphy.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] sparc: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:33:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45672D00.8060903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4566DF0A.3050803@gmail.com>
Yan Burman wrote:
...
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc5_orig/arch/sparc/kernel/sun4d_irq.c 2006-11-09 12:16:21.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5_kzalloc/arch/sparc/kernel/sun4d_irq.c 2006-11-11 22:44:04.000000000 +0200
> @@ -545,8 +545,7 @@ void __init sun4d_init_sbi_irq(void)
> nsbi = 0;
> for_each_sbus(sbus)
> nsbi++;
> - sbus_actions = (struct sbus_action *)kmalloc (nsbi * 8 * 4 * sizeof(struct sbus_action), GFP_ATOMIC);
> - memset (sbus_actions, 0, (nsbi * 8 * 4 * sizeof(struct sbus_action)));
> + sbus_actions = kzalloc (nsbi * 8 * 4 * sizeof(struct sbus_action), GFP_ATOMIC);
> for_each_sbus(sbus) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> extern unsigned char boot_cpu_id;
I'm not sure about this ^ hunk, but...
> diff -rubp linux-2.6.19-rc5_orig/arch/sparc/mm/io-unit.c linux-2.6.19-rc5_kzalloc/arch/sparc/mm/io-unit.c
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc5_orig/arch/sparc/mm/io-unit.c 2006-11-09 12:16:21.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5_kzalloc/arch/sparc/mm/io-unit.c 2006-11-11 22:44:04.000000000 +0200
> @@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ iounit_init(int sbi_node, int io_node, s
> struct linux_prom_registers iommu_promregs[PROMREG_MAX];
> struct resource r;
>
> - iounit = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iounit_struct), GFP_ATOMIC);
> + iounit = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iounit_struct), GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> - memset(iounit, 0, sizeof(*iounit));
> iounit->limit[0] = IOUNIT_BMAP1_START;
> iounit->limit[1] = IOUNIT_BMAP2_START;
> iounit->limit[2] = IOUNIT_BMAPM_START;
...in this ^, the old code and your update don't check for NULL return.
--
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-==- =-== ==---
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-24 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-24 12:01 Yan Burman
2006-11-24 17:33 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2006-11-24 19:02 ` Yan Burman
2006-11-24 19:13 ` Stefan Richter
2006-11-24 21:52 ` David Miller
2006-12-01 1:12 ` David Miller
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