[PATCH] staging: unisys: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Mar 18 00:37:25 UTC 2014
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:26:07AM +0900, DaeSeok Youn wrote:
> I think vmalloc/kmalloc in uislib_malloc() can be removed and just use
> vmalloc/kmalloc directly.
Yes. Actually, just use kmalloc, I don't knwo why vmalloc is being
used, but cc: the driver maintainers just to be sure.
> (UISMALLOC() macro is also removed.)
Yes.
> And uislib_malloc() is renamed to "uislib_trace_buffer_status()" which
> is just tracing buffer status(Malloc_FailuresAlloc, Malloc_BytesInUse
> ...) for info_proc_read_helper().
The whole tracing stuff needs to be ripped out, so no problem deleting
it here as well.
> If this change is accepted, it also need to change uislib_free().
Drop it and just use kfree().
thanks,
greg k-h
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