linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PowerPC/Cell: use vzalloc rather than vmalloc and memset in spu_alloc_lscsa

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Message-Id: <201010302341.22738.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:41:22 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC/Cell: use vzalloc rather than vmalloc and memset in spu_alloc_lscsa_std

On Saturday 30 October 2010, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We can get rid of a memset in 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/lscsa_alloc.c::spu_alloc_lscsa_std() by 
> using vzalloc() rather than vmalloc()+memset().
> 
> Completely untested patch below since I have no hardware nor tools to 
> compile this.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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