Re: [RFC PATCH] device: Add kernel standard devm_k.alloc functions

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 22:43 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Currently, devm_ managed memory only supports kzalloc.
> > 
> > Convert the devm_kzalloc implementation to devm_kmalloc
> > and remove the complete memset to 0 but still set the
> > initial struct devres header and whatever padding before
> > data to 0.
> > 
> > Add the other normal alloc variants as static inlines with
> > __GFP_ZERO added to the gfp flag where appropriate:
> > 
> > 	devm_kzalloc
> > 	devm_kcalloc
> > 	devm_kmalloc_array
> > 
> > Add gfp.h to device.h for the newly added static inlines.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/devres.c  | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
> >  include/linux/device.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> Makes sense to me, does this let other drivers start to use this where
> they were not able to in the past?

Yes.

There are some existing uses of devm_kzalloc(dev, n*size, gfp)
that could/should be converted.

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