netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: cavium: liquidio: Use vzalloc instead of vmalloc

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:20:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amitoj1606@...il.com
Cc:	derek.chickles@...iumnetworks.com,
	satananda.burla@...iumnetworks.com,
	felix.manlunas@...iumnetworks.com,
	raghu.vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cavium: liquidio: Use vzalloc instead of vmalloc

From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:23:20 +0530

> vzalloc combines vmalloc and memset 0.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> type T;
> T *d;
> expression e;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
>         d =
> -            vmalloc
> +            vzalloc
>              (...);
>         if (!d) S
> -       memset(d, 0, sizeof(T));
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>

This dos not apply cleanly to net-next.