linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/21] cpuidle: avoid unnecessary kzalloc/free of struct cpuidle_device

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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:12:50 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>, rjw@...k.pl
CC:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/21] cpuidle: avoid unnecessary kzalloc/free of struct
 cpuidle_device_kobj

On 09/22/2013 03:21 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> We always need to allocate struct cpuidle_device_kobj for all CPUs and so there
> is no real need to have a pointer to it inside struct cpuidle_device.
> 
> This patch makes a object instance of struct cpuidle_device_kobj inside struct
> cpuidle_device instead of a pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

nack, it was made in purpose for kobject_init_and_add.

see commit 728ce22b696f9f1404a74d7b2279a65933553a1b



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