linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove unnecessary cast and use kcalloc instead of kzalloc

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Date:   Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:38:46 -0500
From:   Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Tony Cheng <tony.cheng@....com>,
        amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove unnecessary cast and use kcalloc
 instead of kzalloc

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc and the cast on the return from kzalloc is
> unnecessary and can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Reviewed and pushed.

Thanks!

Alex

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> index e04e8ecd4874..2ff5b467603d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> @@ -70,9 +70,8 @@ static bool construct(struct dc_context *ctx, struct dal_logger *logger,
>  {
>         /* malloc buffer and init offsets */
>         logger->log_buffer_size = DAL_LOGGER_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE;
> -       logger->log_buffer = (char *)kzalloc(logger->log_buffer_size * sizeof(char),
> -                                            GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> +       logger->log_buffer = kcalloc(logger->log_buffer_size, sizeof(char),
> +                                    GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!logger->log_buffer)
>                 return false;
>
> --
> 2.14.1
>
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