| Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:07:30 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 07/14] regulator: s2mps11: Copy supported regulators from initconst |
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:14:00AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> - for (i = 0; i < S2MPS11_REGULATOR_CNT; i++) > + s2mps11->rdev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, > + sizeof(*s2mps11->rdev)*rdev_num, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!s2mps11->rdev) > + return -ENOMEM;
If we're using managed allocations do we actually need to keep the rdev table at all? We only normally use it to free.
> + rdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*rdata)*rdev_num, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!rdata) > + return -ENOMEM; > +
> + /* rdata was needed only for of_regulator_match() during probe */ > + if (rdata) > + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, rdata); > +
If this is always going to be freed within the probe path (in the same function indeed) why is it a managed allocaton at all? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |