Re: [PATCH 1/5] IB/qib: Use kcalloc() in qib_init_iba7322_funcs()

From: Johannes Thumshirn
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 11:08:42 EST


On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:54:40PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> @@ -7324,8 +7324,9 @@ struct qib_devdata *qib_init_iba7322_funcs(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> >> actual_cnt -= dd->num_pports;
> >>
> >> tabsize = actual_cnt;
> >> - dd->cspec->msix_entries = kzalloc(tabsize *
> >> - sizeof(struct qib_msix_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
> >> + dd->cspec->msix_entries = kcalloc(tabsize,
> >> + sizeof(*dd->cspec->msix_entries),
> >> + GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > Are we fine with loosing the zeroing of the entries?
>
> How did you get this concern?
>
> Do you really miss such functionality from the other interface?

Ahm... Don't kzalloc() and kcalloc() both pass in __GFP_ZERO?

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