Re: [PATCH v3 20/24] wireless: Remove call to memset after dma_alloc_coherent

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Mon Jul 15 2019 - 05:08:08 EST


Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In commit 518a2f1925c3
> ("dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*"),
> dma_alloc_coherent has already zeroed the memory.
> So memset is not needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Use actual commit rather than the merge commit in the commit message
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c | 5 -----
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c | 2 --
> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pearl_pcie.c | 2 --
> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/topaz_pcie.c | 2 --
> 4 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c
> index eca87f7c5b6c..294fbc1e89ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c
> @@ -1704,9 +1704,6 @@ ath10k_ce_alloc_dest_ring_64(struct ath10k *ar, unsigned int ce_id,
> /* Correctly initialize memory to 0 to prevent garbage
> * data crashing system when download firmware
> */
> - memset(dest_ring->base_addr_owner_space_unaligned, 0,
> - nentries * sizeof(struct ce_desc_64) + CE_DESC_RING_ALIGN);

Shouldn't you also remove the comment?

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Kalle Valo