Re: [PATCH] USB: host: Use zeroing memory allocator rather than allocator/memset

From: Himanshu Jha
Date: Sat Dec 30 2017 - 13:26:51 EST


On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:41:19AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Himanshu Jha wrote:
>
> > Use dma_zalloc_coherent for allocating zeroed
> > memory and remove unnecessary memset function.
> >
> > Done using Coccinelle.
> > Generated-by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci
> > 0-day tested with no failures.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c | 7 +++----
> > drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 7 ++-----
> > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > index f5c9021..ac53398 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > @@ -600,15 +600,14 @@ static int uhci_start(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
> > uhci->dentry = dentry;
> > #endif
> >
> > - uhci->frame = dma_alloc_coherent(uhci_dev(uhci),
> > - UHCI_NUMFRAMES * sizeof(*uhci->frame),
> > - &uhci->frame_dma_handle, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + uhci->frame = dma_zalloc_coherent(uhci_dev(uhci),
> > + UHCI_NUMFRAMES * sizeof(*uhci->frame),
> > + &uhci->frame_dma_handle, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Please don't change the existing whitespace scheme when you make
> changes like this one.

Thanks for the feedback!
Do I need to send v2 for this ?

Thanks
Himanshu Jha