linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:15:55 +0900
From:   DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:     Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     mchehab@...nel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset

2017-03-14 2:54 GMT+09:00 Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>:
>
> On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 19:54 +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
> > If the atomisp_kernel_zalloc() has "true" as a second parameter, it
> > tries to allocate zeroing memory from kmalloc(vmalloc) and memset.
> > But using kzalloc is rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0.
> > (vzalloc is for same reason with kzalloc)
>
> This is true but please don't apply this. There are about five other
> layers of indirection for memory allocators that want removing first so
> that the driver just uses the correct kmalloc/kzalloc/kv* functions in
> the right places.
right. kvmalloc/kvzalloc would be used after preparing those
interfaces in staging tree.
I will try to change all the atomisp_kernel_m{z}alloc() callers to
correct functions to allocate memory.

Thanks.
Regards,
Jake.

>
> Alan
>