Re: [PATCH 2/3] ath10k: use dma_zalloc_coherent()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 18:19:50 EST


On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 15:04 +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> use dma_zalloc_coherent() instead of dma_alloc_coherent and memset().
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
[]
> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static int ath10k_pci_diag_read_mem(struct ath10k *ar, u32 address, void *data,
> */
> alloc_nbytes = min_t(unsigned int, nbytes, DIAG_TRANSFER_LIMIT);
>
> - data_buf = (unsigned char *)dma_alloc_coherent(ar->dev,
> + data_buf = (unsigned char *)dma_zalloc_coherent(ar->dev,
> alloc_nbytes,
> &ce_data_base,
> GFP_ATOMIC);

trivia:

Nicer to realign arguments and remove the unnecessary cast.

Perhaps:

data_buf = dma_zalloc_coherent(ar->dev, alloc_nbytes, &ce_data_base,
 GFP_ATOMIC);