Re: [PATCH v2 27/27] sound: ppc: remove unneeded memset after dma_alloc_coherent

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 28/06/2019 Ã 04:50, Fuqian Huang a ÃcritÂ:
> In commit af7ddd8a627c
> ("Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping"),
> dma_alloc_coherent has already zeroed the memory.
> So memset is not needed.

You are refering to a merge commit, is that correct ?

I can't see anything related in that commit, can you please pinpoint it ?

As far as I can see, on powerpc the memory has always been zeroized 
(since 2005 at least).

Christophe

> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   sound/ppc/pmac.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/ppc/pmac.c b/sound/ppc/pmac.c
> index 1b11e53f6a62..1ab12f4f8631 100644
> --- a/sound/ppc/pmac.c
> +++ b/sound/ppc/pmac.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ static int snd_pmac_dbdma_alloc(struct snd_pmac *chip, struct pmac_dbdma *rec, i
>   	if (rec->space == NULL)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   	rec->size = size;
> -	memset(rec->space, 0, rsize);
>   	rec->cmds = (void __iomem *)DBDMA_ALIGN(rec->space);
>   	rec->addr = rec->dma_base + (unsigned long)((char *)rec->cmds - (char *)rec->space);
>