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Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset

From DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset
Date 2017-03-13 15:10 +0100
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2017-03-13 20:51 GMT+09:00 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 07:54:21PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>> If the atomisp_kernel_zalloc() has "true" as a second parameter, it
>> tries to allocate zeroing memory from kmalloc(vmalloc) and memset.
>> But using kzalloc is rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0.
>> (vzalloc is for same reason with kzalloc)
>>
>> And also atomisp_kernel_malloc() can be used with
>> atomisp_kernel_zalloc(<size>, false);
>>
>
> We should just change all the callers to kvmalloc() and kvzmalloc().
ok. I will try to change all the callers to kvmalloc() and kvzalloc().

Thanks.
Regards,
Daeseok Youn
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

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[PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and  memset Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc  and memset Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2017-03-13 13:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 15:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 16:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc  and memset Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-13 19:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: use k{v}zalloc instead of k{v}alloc and memset DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 02:20 +0100

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