linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Don't call memset after dma_alloc

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Message-ID: <20200902155114.bscqz3a5mdp27toj@medion>
Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 16:51:14 +0100
From:   Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        njavali@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Don't call memset after dma_alloc_coherent()

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:22:44PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Alex,
> 
> > dma_alloc_coherent() already zeroes memory, so the extra call to
> > memset() is unnecessary.
> 
> One patch per driver, please.

There's a single patch for QLA2XXX already submitted: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200820185149.932178-1-alex.dewar90@gmail.com/

I'll send separate patches for the other cases.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering