linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/20] arch/arm/mach-davinci: Use kzalloc

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Message-ID: <87d3wyqzt7.fsf@deeprootsystems.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 08:16:04 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/20] arch/arm/mach-davinci: Use kzalloc

Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk> writes:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
>  if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>
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