Re: [PATCH 2/2] pch_dma: Modify redundant memory allocation

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 21:43 +0900, Tomoya MORINAGA wrote:
> nr_channels is defined in "struct pch_dma".
> and struct pch_dma_chan is defined in "struct pch_dma".
> So, "sizeof(struct pch_dma_chan) * nr_channels" is unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/pch_dma.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c b/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c
> index e72bfeb..d78f526 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c
> @@ -811,8 +811,7 @@ static int __devinit pch_dma_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	int i;
>  
>  	nr_channels = id->driver_data;
> -	pd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pch_dma)+
> -		sizeof(struct pch_dma_chan) * nr_channels, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pch_dma), GFP_KERNEL);
kernel convention is 
	sizeof(*pd)

>  	if (!pd)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  


-- 
~Vinod

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