Re: [PATCH 01/10] dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in init_origin_hash()

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 21:43 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 08:01 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > $Constant there is any number and the match regex is
> > any upper case variable.
> Why doesn't that regex match on "ORIGIN_HASH_SIZE"?

It does match.

Did you see my earlier email?

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/md/dm-snap.c --show-types --types=alloc_with_multiply
WARNING:ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY: Prefer kmalloc_array over kmalloc with multiply
#329: FILE: drivers/md/dm-snap.c:329:
+       _origins = kmalloc(ORIGIN_HASH_SIZE * sizeof(struct list_head),

WARNING:ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY: Prefer kmalloc_array over kmalloc with multiply
#338: FILE: drivers/md/dm-snap.c:338:
+       _dm_origins = kmalloc(ORIGIN_HASH_SIZE * sizeof(struct list_head),

total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 2490 lines checked