linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/mthca: Use zeroing memory allocator than allocator/memset

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:06:47 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Cc:     dledford@...hat.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mthca: Use zeroing memory allocator than
 allocator/memset

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 06:04:10PM +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> Use dma_zalloc_coherent for allocating zeroed
> memory and remove unnecessary memset function.
> 
> Done using Coccinelle.
> Generated-by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci
> 0-day tested with no failures.
> 
> Suggested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next thanks

Jason