Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH net-next] drivers:net: Convertdma_alloc_coherent(...__GFP_ZERO) to dma_zalloc_coherent

From: Jeff Kirsher
Date: Tue Aug 27 2013 - 21:44:09 EST


On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 22:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> __GFP_ZERO is an uncommon flag and perhaps is better
> not used. static inline dma_zalloc_coherent exists
> so convert the uses of dma_alloc_coherent with __GFP_ZERO
> to the more common kernel style with zalloc.
>
> Remove memset from the static inline dma_zalloc_coherent
> and add just one use of __GFP_ZERO instead.
>
> Trivially reduces the size of the existing uses of
> dma_zalloc_coherent.
>
> Realign arguments as appropriate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>

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