linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/30] drm/amdgpu: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 16:21:45 +0100
From:   Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>
To:     Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>
Cc:     David Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        amd-gfx mailing list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
        ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/30] drm/amdgpu: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 14:15, Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com> wrote:
>
> kmemdup is introduced to duplicate a region of memory in a neat way.
> Rather than kmalloc/kzalloc + memset, which the programmer needs to
> write the size twice (sometimes lead to mistakes), kmemdup improves
> readability, leads to smaller code and also reduce the chances of mistakes.
> Suggestion to use kmemdup rather than using kmalloc/kzalloc + memset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>
Fuqian please add reviewed-by and other tags when sending new revisions.

Fwiw the patch is:
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@...labora.com>

-Emil