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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/5] Input: evdev - Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
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On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 12:16 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 21:45 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:46 AM Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.c
> > om> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:20:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Switch to bitmap_zalloc() to show clearly what we are
> > > > allocating.
> > > > Besides that it returns pointer of bitmap type instead of opaque
> > > > void *.
> >
> >
> > > > + mem = bitmap_alloc(maxbit, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > if (!mem)
> > > > return -ENOMEM;
> > >
> > > But in commit message you say you switch to bitmap_zalloc(). IIUC
> > > bitmap_alloc() is OK here. But could you please update comment to
> > > avoid confusing.
> >
> > There are two places, one with alloc, another with zalloc.
> > I will clarify this in commit message of next version.
> >
> > > > + mask = bitmap_zalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > if (!mask)
> > > > return -ENOMEM;
> > > >
> > > > error = bits_from_user(mask, cnt - 1, codes_size, codes,
> > > > compat);
> > >
> > > If my understanding of bits_from_user() correct, here you can also
> > > use
> > > bitmap_alloc(), true?
>
> Also it might be useful to have a separate bitmap_from_user
> to alloc and copy.

Maybe. I didn't check if there are such users except this driver.

Anyway, it's out of scope of the series.

--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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