Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0

From: DaeSeok Youn
Date: Mon Mar 17 2014 - 20:26:17 EST


I think vmalloc/kmalloc in uislib_malloc() can be removed and just use
vmalloc/kmalloc directly.
(UISMALLOC() macro is also removed.)
And uislib_malloc() is renamed to "uislib_trace_buffer_status()" which
is just tracing buffer status(Malloc_FailuresAlloc, Malloc_BytesInUse
...) for info_proc_read_helper().

If this change is accepted, it also need to change uislib_free().

Is it fine to change like this?

Thanks.
Daeseok Youn.

2014-03-18 6:41 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:37:50PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uislib.c | 5 +----
>> drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisutils.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uislib.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uislib.c
>> index d77df9a..9748fcb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uislib.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uislib.c
>> @@ -339,8 +339,6 @@ create_bus(CONTROLVM_MESSAGE *msg, char *buf)
>> return CONTROLVM_RESP_ERROR_KMALLOC_FAILED;
>> }
>>
>> - memset(bus, 0, size);
>> -
>> /* Currently by default, the bus Number is the GuestHandle.
>> * Configure Bus message can override this.
>> */
>> @@ -530,7 +528,6 @@ create_device(CONTROLVM_MESSAGE *msg, char *buf)
>> return CONTROLVM_RESP_ERROR_KMALLOC_FAILED;
>> }
>>
>> - memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct device_info));
>> dev->channelTypeGuid = msg->cmd.createDevice.dataTypeGuid;
>> dev->intr = msg->cmd.createDevice.intr;
>> dev->channelAddr = msg->cmd.createDevice.channelAddr;
>> @@ -1437,7 +1434,7 @@ uislib_malloc(size_t siz, gfp_t gfp, U8 contiguous, char *fn, int ln)
>> * get memory for you (like, invoke oom killer), which
>> * will probably cripple the system.
>> */
>> - p = kmalloc(siz, gfp | __GFP_NORETRY);
>> + p = kzalloc(siz, gfp | __GFP_NORETRY);
>> }
>> if (p == NULL) {
>> LOGERR("uislib_malloc failed to alloc %d bytes @%s:%d",
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisutils.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisutils.c
>> index 208b7ea..2f05be1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisutils.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisutils.c
>> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ ReqHandlerAdd(GUID switchTypeGuid,
>> rc = UISMALLOC(sizeof(*rc), GFP_ATOMIC);
>> if (!rc)
>> return NULL;
>> - memset(rc, 0, sizeof(*rc));
>> +
>> rc->switchTypeGuid = switchTypeGuid;
>> rc->controlfunc = controlfunc;
>> rc->min_channel_bytes = min_channel_bytes;
>
> Can you just remove the UISMALLOC() macro completly, so that it's easier
> to verify that changes like this are actually correct?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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