linux-kernel - [PATCH] remove unnecessary initial allocation of vc

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:33:32 +0530
From:   "Pranay Kr. Srivastava" <pranjas@...il.com>
To:     w.d.hubbs@...il.com, chris@...-brannons.com, kirk@...sers.ca,
        samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        sfr@...b.auug.org.au, speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Pranay Kr. Srivastava" <pranjas@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] remove unnecessary initial allocation of vc

This patch removes the unnecessary allocation of
current foreground vc during initialization.

Also change the prototype of speakup_allocate to take
extra argument of gfp_* flags. Thus not requiring
GFP_ATOMIC during initialization.

Signed-off-by: Pranay Kr. Srivastava <pranjas@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/speakup/main.c | 19 ++++---------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c
index ad95905..4437b39 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c
@@ -1328,14 +1328,14 @@ static int edit_bits(struct vc_data *vc, u_char type, u_char ch, u_short key)
 }
 
 /* Allocation concurrency is protected by the console semaphore */
-static int speakup_allocate(struct vc_data *vc)
+static int speakup_allocate(struct vc_data *vc, gfp_t gfp_flags)
 {
 	int vc_num;
 
 	vc_num = vc->vc_num;
 	if (speakup_console[vc_num] == NULL) {
 		speakup_console[vc_num] = kzalloc(sizeof(*speakup_console[0]),
-						  GFP_ATOMIC);
+						  gfp_flags);
 		if (speakup_console[vc_num] == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		speakup_date(vc);
@@ -2258,7 +2258,7 @@ static int vt_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
 	switch (code) {
 	case VT_ALLOCATE:
 		if (vc->vc_mode == KD_TEXT)
-			speakup_allocate(vc);
+			speakup_allocate(vc, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		break;
 	case VT_DEALLOCATE:
 		speakup_deallocate(vc);
@@ -2318,7 +2318,6 @@ static int __init speakup_init(void)
 {
 	int i;
 	long err = 0;
-	struct st_spk_t *first_console;
 	struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d;
 	struct var_t *var;
 
@@ -2343,18 +2342,9 @@ static int __init speakup_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto error_virtkeyboard;
 
-	first_console = kzalloc(sizeof(*first_console), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!first_console) {
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		goto error_alloc;
-	}
-
-	speakup_console[vc->vc_num] = first_console;
-	speakup_date(vc);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_CONSOLES; i++)
 		if (vc_cons[i].d) {
-			err = speakup_allocate(vc_cons[i].d);
+			err = speakup_allocate(vc_cons[i].d, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (err)
 				goto error_kobjects;
 		}
@@ -2413,7 +2403,6 @@ static int __init speakup_init(void)
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_CONSOLES; i++)
 		kfree(speakup_console[i]);
 
-error_alloc:
 	speakup_remove_virtual_keyboard();
 
 error_virtkeyboard:
-- 
2.10.2