linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi: bnx2fc: Use zeroing allocator rather than allocator/memset

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Message-ID: <yq1o9mauoz3.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:17:52 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Cc:     jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        aacraid@...ptec.com, anil.gurumurthy@...gic.com,
        sudarsana.kalluru@...gic.com, QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...gic.com,
        satishkh@...co.com, sebaddel@...co.com, kartilak@...co.com,
        QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...ium.com, qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi: bnx2fc: Use zeroing allocator rather than allocator/memset


Himanshu,

> Use dma_zalloc_coherent instead of dma_alloc_coherent followed by
> memset 0.

Does not apply to 4.16/scsi-queue. Please resubmit. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering