linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] staging/rdma/hfi1: consolidate kmalloc

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Message-Id: <1450104189-2653-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:43:07 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
To:	Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@...el.com>
Cc:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] staging/rdma/hfi1: consolidate kmalloc_array+memset into kcalloc

rather than using kmalloc_array + memset it seems cleaner to simply use
kcalloc which will deliver memory set to zero.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
---

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig
CONFIG_INFINIBAND=m, CONFIG_STAGING=y, CONFIG_STAGING_RDMA=m

Patch is against linux-next (localversion-next is -next-20151214)

 drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c
index dc69159..31eec8a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c
@@ -10128,8 +10128,7 @@ static void init_qos(struct hfi1_devdata *dd, u32 first_ctxt)
 		goto bail;
 	if (num_vls * qpns_per_vl > dd->chip_rcv_contexts)
 		goto bail;
-	rsmmap = kmalloc_array(NUM_MAP_REGS, sizeof(u64), GFP_KERNEL);
-	memset(rsmmap, rxcontext, NUM_MAP_REGS * sizeof(u64));
+	rsmmap = kcalloc(NUM_MAP_REGS, sizeof(u64), GFP_KERNEL);
 	/* init the local copy of the table */
 	for (i = 0, ctxt = first_ctxt; i < num_vls; i++) {
 		unsigned tctxt;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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