Hi Shivashran,

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:52:54PM +0530, Shivasharan Srikanteshwara wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Himanshu Jha [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 9:18 PM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; Himanshu Jha
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: Use zeroing memory allocator than
> > allocator/memset
> >
> > Use pci_zalloc_consistent 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 <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c   | 19 ++++++-------------
> >  drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c |  5 ++---
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Hi Himanshu,
> I can see one more allocation done in megasas_get_seq_num() that could
> make use of these changes.

Yes, I missed that case! Thanks for pointing that out.

> Also, there is a driver update patchset that I am planning to post today.
> Adding this patch first might require additional rebasing of this
> patchset.
> Would you be ok if I send a separate patch for this along with the change
> mentioned above once my patch series gets committed?
> That would save me some rebasing effort. :-)

Yeah, sure! I have no objections for it. But this patch was not in the
patchseries that I sent a while ago https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/30/77

Thanks
Himanshu Jha

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