linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] topology: removed kzalloc return value cast

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Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:29:14 +0100
From:	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To:	Mihai Stirbat <mihai.stirbat@...il.com>
Cc:	linux@....linux.org.uk, namhyung@...nel.org,
	lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] topology: removed kzalloc return value cast

On 10 March 2013 21:35, Mihai Stirbat <mihai.stirbat@...il.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Mihai Stirbat <mihai.stirbat@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/topology.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> index 79282eb..f10316b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
>         int alloc_size, cpu = 0;
>
>         alloc_size = nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct cpu_capacity);
> -       cpu_capacity = (struct cpu_capacity *)kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_NOWAIT);
> +       cpu_capacity = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_NOWAIT);

you're right

Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>

>
>         while ((cn = of_find_node_by_type(cn, "cpu"))) {
>                 const u32 *rate, *reg;
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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