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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:43:35 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Sangjung Woo <sangjung.woo@...sung.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] device: Add kernel standard devm_k.alloc functions On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Currently, devm_ managed memory only supports kzalloc. > > Convert the devm_kzalloc implementation to devm_kmalloc > and remove the complete memset to 0 but still set the > initial struct devres header and whatever padding before > data to 0. > > Add the other normal alloc variants as static inlines with > __GFP_ZERO added to the gfp flag where appropriate: > > devm_kzalloc > devm_kcalloc > devm_kmalloc_array > > Add gfp.h to device.h for the newly added static inlines. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> > --- > drivers/base/devres.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- > include/linux/device.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Makes sense to me, does this let other drivers start to use this where they were not able to in the past? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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