netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] ethernet :mellanox :mlx4: Replace pci_pool_alloc by pci_pool

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Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:44:20 +0200
From:   Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
To:     Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, yishaih@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        sahu.rameshwar73@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ethernet :mellanox :mlx4: Replace pci_pool_alloc by
 pci_pool_zalloc

Hi Souptic,

Thanks for your patch.

On 29/11/2016 9:46 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> In mlx4_alloc_cmd_mailbox(), pci_pool_alloc() followed by memset will be
> replaced by pci_pool_zalloc()
>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
> ---
> v3:
>    - Fixed alignment issues
As mentioned already, you mean 'Remove empty line'.
>
> v2:
>    - Address comment from sergei
>      Alignment was not proper
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c
> index e36bebc..a49072b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c
> @@ -2679,15 +2679,13 @@ struct mlx4_cmd_mailbox *mlx4_alloc_cmd_mailbox(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
>   	if (!mailbox)
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> -	mailbox->buf = pci_pool_alloc(mlx4_priv(dev)->cmd.pool, GFP_KERNEL,
> -				      &mailbox->dma);
> +	mailbox->buf = pci_pool_zalloc(mlx4_priv(dev)->cmd.pool, GFP_KERNEL,
> +				       &mailbox->dma);
>   	if (!mailbox->buf) {
>   		kfree(mailbox);
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>   	}
>
> -	memset(mailbox->buf, 0, MLX4_MAILBOX_SIZE);
> -
>   	return mailbox;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mlx4_alloc_cmd_mailbox);
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>

Thanks,
Tariq