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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch] snsc kmalloc2kzalloc
Date: 16 Jan 2006 06:59:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0irsktmcx.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net> (raw)

Hi,

A small cleanup patch - kmalloc to kzalloac

Cheers,
Jes

Change driver to use kzalloc rather than kmalloc+memset

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>

----

 drivers/char/snsc.c       |    8 +++-----
 drivers/char/snsc_event.c |    7 ++-----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/snsc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/snsc.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/snsc.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
  * for more details.
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2004 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.
  */
 
 /*
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 	scd = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct sysctl_data_s, scd_cdev);
 
 	/* allocate memory for subchannel data */
-	sd = kmalloc(sizeof (struct subch_data_s), GFP_KERNEL);
+	sd = kzalloc(sizeof (struct subch_data_s), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (sd == NULL) {
 		printk("%s: couldn't allocate subchannel data\n",
 		       __FUNCTION__);
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
 	}
 
 	/* initialize subch_data_s fields */
-	memset(sd, 0, sizeof (struct subch_data_s));
 	sd->sd_nasid = scd->scd_nasid;
 	sd->sd_subch = ia64_sn_irtr_open(scd->scd_nasid);
 
@@ -394,7 +393,7 @@
 			sprintf(devnamep, "#%d", geo_slab(geoid));
 
 			/* allocate sysctl device data */
-			scd = kmalloc(sizeof (struct sysctl_data_s),
+			scd = kzalloc(sizeof (struct sysctl_data_s),
 				      GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!scd) {
 				printk("%s: failed to allocate device info"
@@ -402,7 +401,6 @@
 				       SYSCTL_BASENAME, devname);
 				continue;
 			}
-			memset(scd, 0, sizeof (struct sysctl_data_s));
 
 			/* initialize sysctl device data fields */
 			scd->scd_nasid = cnodeid_to_nasid(cnode);
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/snsc_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/snsc_event.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/snsc_event.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
  * for more details.
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2004 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.
  */
 
 /*
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
 {
 	int rv;
 
-	event_sd = kmalloc(sizeof (struct subch_data_s), GFP_KERNEL);
+	event_sd = kzalloc(sizeof (struct subch_data_s), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (event_sd == NULL) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: couldn't allocate subchannel info"
 		       " for event monitoring\n", __FUNCTION__);
@@ -279,7 +279,6 @@
 	}
 
 	/* initialize subch_data_s fields */
-	memset(event_sd, 0, sizeof (struct subch_data_s));
 	event_sd->sd_nasid = scd->scd_nasid;
 	spin_lock_init(&event_sd->sd_rlock);
 
@@ -305,5 +304,3 @@
 		return;
 	}
 }
-
-

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