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Message-ID: <8cc11dd5-f599-cdf0-da05-404bb5a6922a@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Fri, 1 Jul 2022 10:52:57 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        Ed Brindley <kernel@...davale.org>,
        Denis Pauk <pauk.denis@...il.com>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_wmi_sensors) Save a few bytes of memory

On 7/1/22 10:47, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> The first 'for' loop of asus_wmi_configure_sensor_setup() only computes
> the number and type of sensors that exist in the system.
> 
> Here, the 'temp_sensor' structure is only used to store the data collected
> by asus_wmi_sensor_info(). There is no point in using a devm_ variant for
> this first allocation and it can be freed just after this initial loop.
> 
> So use kzalloc()/kfree() to save a few bytes of memory that would be kept
> allocated for no good reason otherwise.

Then why isn't this just allocated on the stack ? The structure isn't _that_
large.

Guenter

> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> ---
>   drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c b/drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c
> index 9e935e34c998..4873edad4996 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c
> @@ -514,14 +514,16 @@ static int asus_wmi_configure_sensor_setup(struct device *dev,
>   	int i, idx;
>   	int err;
>   
> -	temp_sensor = devm_kcalloc(dev, 1, sizeof(*temp_sensor), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	temp_sensor = kzalloc(sizeof(*temp_sensor), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!temp_sensor)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   
>   	for (i = 0; i < sensor_data->wmi.sensor_count; i++) {
>   		err = asus_wmi_sensor_info(i, temp_sensor);
> -		if (err)
> +		if (err) {
> +			kfree(temp_sensor);
>   			return err;
> +		}
>   
>   		switch (temp_sensor->data_type) {
>   		case TEMPERATURE_C:
> @@ -536,6 +538,7 @@ static int asus_wmi_configure_sensor_setup(struct device *dev,
>   			break;
>   		}
>   	}
> +	kfree(temp_sensor);
>   
>   	if (nr_count[hwmon_temp])
>   		nr_count[hwmon_chip]++, nr_types++;

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