linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v8 2/6] virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver

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Message-ID: <cd5572ac-14d0-f872-6321-c522daa70f49@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 11:57:05 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/6] virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver

>>
>> I think you should do the same here, vdev->priv is allocated in
>> virtio_pmem_probe.
>>
>> But maybe I am missing something important here :)
> 
> Because virtio_balloon use "kzalloc" for allocation and needs to be freed. 
> But virtio pmem uses "devm_kzalloc" which takes care of automatically deleting 
> the device memory when associated device is detached.

Hehe, thanks, that was the part that I was missing!

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb