linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 1/4] ehca: assure 4k alignment for firmware control block in 64k page mode

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Message-ID: <OF69697CF5.13DC8781-ONC125721E.0039CD42-C125721E.003A3D50@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:39:09 +0100
From:	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN@...ibm.com>
To:	rolandd@...co.com
Cc:	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, openib-general@...nib.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 1/4] ehca: assure 4k alignment for firmware control block
 in 64k page mode

Hi Roland!
> Arnd wrote:
> This seems broken. You have a constructor for newly allocated objects,
but
> there is no destructor and it seems that objects passed to
> ehca_free_fw_ctrlblock are not guaranteed to be initialized either.
> I'd simply move the memset into the alloc function and get rid of the
> constructor here.
As Arnd stated I need to fix this ctor issue. Do you prefer me to resend
all patches in proper format (non-mangled inline) or just this one bug fix?
Thanks!
Nam

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