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

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Message-ID: <919431491.28558886.1557828168896.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 06:02:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...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!

Thank you for the review.

Best regards,
Pankaj
> 
> --
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David / dhildenb
>