linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: xilinx_vdma: Use dma_pool

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Message-ID: <20160608033514.GR16910@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 09:05:15 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, michal.simek@...inx.com,
	soren.brinkmann@...inx.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: xilinx_vdma: Use dma_pool_zalloc

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:48:38AM +0530, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Dma_pool_zalloc combines dma_pool_alloc and memset 0.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> type T;
> T *d;
> expression e;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
>         d =
> -            dma_pool_alloc
> +            dma_pool_zalloc
>              (...);
>         if (!d) S
> -       memset(d, 0, sizeof(T));

Thanks for your patch, but I have already applied a similar patch fixing
this.

-- 
~Vinod