On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:16:44PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 22:43 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Currently, devm_ managed memory only supports kzalloc. > > > > > > Convert the devm_kzalloc implementation to devm_kmalloc > > > and remove the complete memset to 0 but still set the > > > initial struct devres header and whatever padding before > > > data to 0. > > > > > > Add the other normal alloc variants as static inlines with > > > __GFP_ZERO added to the gfp flag where appropriate: > > > > > > devm_kzalloc > > > devm_kcalloc > > > devm_kmalloc_array > > > > > > Add gfp.h to device.h for the newly added static inlines. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > drivers/base/devres.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- > > > include/linux/device.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- > > > 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > > > Makes sense to me, does this let other drivers start to use this where > > they were not able to in the past? > > Yes. > > There are some existing uses of devm_kzalloc(dev, n*size, gfp) > that could/should be converted.
Ok, great, want me to take the "RFC" off of this and apply it to my tree? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
