Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:50:39 +0100 (IST) | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] drm: introduce drm_zalloc |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:57:50PM +0200, m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl wrote: >> Hello, >> >> As there are many places in drm code where drm_alloc + memset is used >> this patch series introduces drm_zalloc and also makes use of drm_calloc where >> needed. Most of these patches save some bytes so the benefit is a few kB saved >> (gcc 4.1.2) with patch applied. Also some small (style, etc.) things are fixed. >> This patch series does the conversion drm tree-wide. All patches were compile >> tested. > > Please just convert it to plain kzalloc/kcalloc and kill these utterly useless > wrappers instead. > >
The wrappers aren't useless the drm alloc/free passes in a memory space for debugging purposes so we can track memory abuse when developing,
but drm_zalloc shouldjust alias to drm_calloc really..
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