Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:03:49 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0 | From | DaeSeok Youn <> |
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Hi, greg.
Review my comment below.
Thanks. Daeseok Youn.
2014-03-18 17:11 GMT+09:00 DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>: > 2014-03-18 9:37 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>: >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:26:07AM +0900, DaeSeok Youn wrote: >>> I think vmalloc/kmalloc in uislib_malloc() can be removed and just use >>> vmalloc/kmalloc directly. >> >> Yes. Actually, just use kmalloc, I don't knwo why vmalloc is being >> used, but cc: the driver maintainers just to be sure. > > It try to allocate 128KiB(131072byte) with vmalloc(). I think if it > trying to allocate with kmalloc() > it has a possibility to fail because of memory fragmentation even if > system has enough memory to use. > Just my opinion. If I'm wrong, let me know. > >> >>> (UISMALLOC() macro is also removed.) >> >> Yes. >> >>> And uislib_malloc() is renamed to "uislib_trace_buffer_status()" which >>> is just tracing buffer status(Malloc_FailuresAlloc, Malloc_BytesInUse >>> ...) for info_proc_read_helper(). >> >> The whole tracing stuff needs to be ripped out, so no problem deleting >> it here as well. > > OK. I will remove that information in info_proc_read_helper(). > >> >>> If this change is accepted, it also need to change uislib_free(). >> >> Drop it and just use kfree(). > OK. replace kfree() with uislib_free(). > >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h
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