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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: Use kzalloc instead of 'kmalloc+memset', where possible.
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On 5/23/11, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:40 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>> Following patch removes the uses of 'kmalloc+memset' from various
>> drivers subsystems, which is replaced by kzalloc. kzalloc take care of
>> setting allocated memory with null, so it helps to get rid from using
>> memset.
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_scatter.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_scatter.c
> []
>> - entry->pagelist = kmalloc(pages * sizeof(*entry->pagelist), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + entry->pagelist = kzalloc(pages * sizeof(*entry->pagelist), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Perhaps it's better to use:
>
> entry->pagelist = kcalloc(pages, sizeof(*entry->pagelist), GFP_KERNEL);
>
>> - entry->busaddr = kmalloc(pages * sizeof(*entry->busaddr), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + entry->busaddr = kzalloc(pages * sizeof(*entry->busaddr), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> here too.
>
Is there any significant benefit of using kcalloc here?


Thanks,
Rakib
>


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