linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/33] dma-mapping: clear harmful GFP

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:29:45 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/33] dma-mapping: clear harmful GFP_* flags in common
        code

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:59:30AM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Just a note that if we're all happy to enshrine the "allocations are always 
> zeroed" behaviour in the API (I am too, for the record), we should remember 
> to follow up once the dust settles to update the docs and I guess just 
> #define dma_zalloc_coherent dma_alloc_coherent.

And then just remove it.  But yes, another item for the todo list..