Re: [PATCH] clk: Zero-initialize memory for new clock in devm_clk_register

From: Tushar Behera
Date: Tue Oct 29 2013 - 07:45:16 EST


On 29 October 2013 16:20, Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Earlier to commit 64c862a839a8 ("devres: add kernel standard devm_k.alloc
> functions") devres_alloc API used to zero-initialize the devres
> allocated object, but now only the devres header is zero-initialized.
>
> Since clk_register zero-initializes the memory while allocating for
> a new clock, passing explicit flag __GFP_ZERO to devres_alloc in
> devm_clk_register to match the behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Please ignore this patch. Kevin Hilman already has got a nicer patch
[1] that fixes this problem at a generic level.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/19/5

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Tushar Behera
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