Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Mar 17 2014 - 20:36:21 EST


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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