linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:38:24 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	ashishsangwan2@...il.com
Cc:	tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset

On 08/28/2012 08:34 PM, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
> you can add 1 more.
> In function ext4_mb_new_blocks(), change:
> ac = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_ac_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
> to
> ac = kmem_cache_zalloc(ext4_ac_cachep, GFP_NOFS); and remove
> memset(ac, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_allocation_context)); from
> ext4_mb_initialize_context().

got it, thanks, will include in the update version patch.

>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com> wrote:
>> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
>>
>> Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().
>>
>> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
>> ---
>>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>


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